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- www.YellowstoneNature.org
- Wolves and Coyotes are found along the oregon trail and yellowstone.
- There are 17 different kinds of rivers .
- There are 20 peaks.
- There is a canyons 20 miles long.
- There there are more than 3,000 bisons in yellowstone.
- Rhode Island and delaware could fit into yellowstone with room left over.
- Yellowstone is is like a huge volcano.
- 700 oxen- 800 loose cows could fit into one wagon, with room.
- Buffalo chips is a game.
- Mountain Lions, wolves, Grizzlies, bisons.
- Yellowstone is 31 thousand square miles.
- A male bison weight about 2000 pound or a ton.
- Coyotes live around for about 6 years.
- You can tell it is a coyotes because of its big ears.
- You can tell it is a wolf because of their small ears.
- Wolves have very small muzzle compared to the rest of its body.
- Coyotes lay down at night and weeping so that they can eat you or food around you.
- There were no roads it was open prairie. It was grass and they rode over grass. People refer the oregon trail was as ocean with the flowing grass.
- A lot of people were moving west because of the gold rush and the amazing land.
- Coyotes front teeth are insiders to get all the meat of the kind of food they had.
- A giant tooth in the coyotes mouth is called a canine tooth.
- The tooth the the back of the mouth for a coyotes is called a molar. But there molars are not flat they are raised.
- A coyote could eat 80 quarters pound hamburgers in 10 minutes.That is 20 pounds in only 10 minutes. They do that because there are other animals that are larger then them and they what to claim the food for himself. They eat al of there food in one time. they get to eat 4 to 5 times a week.
- There could be 4 - 24 wolfs in one pack.
- Both a wolf and coyote are both interested the same kind of animals.
- A coyote has different coats for different kinds of weather.
- Wolfs live in a very social bunch.
- You will leave some of your friends ,family members, and anyone who wanted to come along.
- You have to pull bug out of the flour because they attract.
- Most people died because of unsanitary condition.
- Down the trail you will see many grave marks.
- There is one line and there is yellow grass.
- In the summer the grass is not green, it is brown.
- They us buffalo chips instead of wood as fuel.
- There are more than on tract unless on sandstone or limestone and then they go in a line.
- Some time it was long to get across when there I a spot where you have to what for days.
- In the middle of the prairie there are snakes and bugs. Mostly,Rattle snakes.
- In the prairie ,there are mascots the size of humming birds. there is not bug spray.
- It can be hard to bring the wagon down hill. They hand to unhook the animal crates, or the animals to move attached to the wagon to move the wagon faster down the hill. ,but many small animals ride next to the wagon, and each wagon is responsible for there own animals.
- they ate as much of the animal as they could.
- Some people were assigned to lead the group on horse.
- Food could last for 5-6 mouthes.
- They would use buffalo fat as bug repellant.
- Many people fear the black bear more.The black bear will attach to kill, where as grizzly bears would only bite as claws.
- People were annoyed by biting flies on the Oregon trail.
- Baggers life by themselves.
- Baggers have white stripes from there noes to there shoulders.
- Baggers weight6-12 lb. But in the winter he stuff themselves to weigh 20 lb.
- You skin the bagger ,then put it over the fire.
- The meat on a bagger taste more like game animals then you session it very good.You can also make into a soup.
- Guard hair on a coyotes the first layer.
- Then you have a soft coat that is like a down coat.
- There are two different kinds of wolfs. They are meant for different reasons.
- The wolf have webbing on their fur so when they are on the snow there feet don't sink in.
- Rabies,
- If the gray wolf standed up with its paws on mr solarz shoulders and with mr solarz hands in the air where mr solarz hands are that s where the wolf's nose is.
- Honey Badgers are all over the oregon trail.
- You would not see mountain lions or wolverines.
- Lichen grows very slow.
- Reindeer and Caribou eat lichen.
- Lichen is an ecosystem.
- Lichen is in perfume, medicine, and dies that have been there for thousands of years ago.
- A eagle could kill a deer that is really unbelievable.
- It was hard to go on the oregon trail.
Wagon suggestions.
- Larger wagons need stranger animals to pull the weight
- Get smaller wagons.
- Multiply wagons would be a smart choice. If you could afford it.
- The bigger Wagons if it rains will get stuck in the mud.
- You walk unless you are sick or a baby.