Petrified+Forest

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 * ﻿Inhabited for as long as 10,000 years
 * Dry conditions
 * Business people cut down some areas of it
 * Located in Northeastern Arizona (Not far from the Grand Canyon) 19 miles east of Holbrook
 * Petrified Forest contains America's largest deposits of petrified wood
 * Desert area plant and animal fossils, also archaeological sites
 * Petrified wood in forests
 * Petrified means "converted organic matter into stone or a substance of stony hardness"
 * This forest contains Black Forest and Painted Desert
 * A similar national park is the Walnut Canyon National Monument. It is sinmilar to the Petrified Forest because it is also a canyon and it is in Arizona.
 * Another similar national park is the Canyon De Chelly National Monument because it is also a monument and a canyon which is also located in Arizona
 * It is a desert, canyon, and forest
 * Highest elevation point- 6235 ft.
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Lowest Elevation point- 5300 ft.
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">It is near Holbrook
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Geographic Coordinations- [|35°05′17″N 109°48′23″W][|35°05′17″N 109°48′23″W]
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Visitation- Around 600,000 per year
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Fossils of petrified logs, and reptiles
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">52,000 acres of exploration wilderness for visitors
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">There are amphibians, mammals, reptiles, and birds living there.
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Visiters are not permitted to take wood from the national park
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Greek root petro meaning "rock" or "stone"; literally "wood turned into stone"
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Activites like hiking, backpacking, bird watching, horseback riding, biking, nature walks, wildlife viewing, interpretive programs, and auto touring are available.
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Established in 1962
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The park has four main areas of petrification: Blue Mesa, Jasper Forest, Crystal Forest and Rainbow Forest.
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The first author who visited the forest was Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880.
 * <span style="background-color: #da778b; color: #1106b7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> [[image:http://sets-and-jan.com/Mon-Val/Map-States/Map-4COR.jpg width="390" height="289"]] Petrified Forest
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