Denali National Park
Denali - US National Park in Alaska, spread over an area of 25,000 km2. The park houses the highest point in America - Mount McKinley ( 6193 meters ), named after US President William McKinley. The mountain is constantly growing, because of which earthquakes are inherent in this area. Atabaski Indians name this mountain Denali, which means "great" in translation from their language".
The National Park was founded back in 1917, then it was called Mount Mac Kinley. In 1978, another national park appeared - Denali, and in 1980 both parks merged. Nowadays, in Denali Park you can find high mountains, deep rivers and lakes formed by glaciers. Local residents consider the Tanana River the most colorful, and from the lakes of Chilchukaben and Vonder.
Denali Park has a unique flora, as millions of years ago Asia and Alaska connected through a land isthmus. Over 650 species of plants grow in the park, including mosses, mushrooms, algae, lichens. Coniferous forests grow on the northern and southern slopes of the Alaska ridge. Also in places are deciduous forests of poplar, Japanese birch, alder. On the plains there are fields of heather, cereals, osoka, bitterness, lupine, bacon, hyacinthides.
Animals in Denali recorded 39 species. There are many grizzlies and black bears in the local forests. In addition to bears in the park you can meet deer, moose, rams. Gave, protein, wolves, beavers, foxes. Of the amphibians, only a tree frog lives here, producing glucose in the liver, because of which the frog cells do not freeze. During the cold, the heart of the frog does not beat, in the spring it awakens.
Denali Park is very popular among tourists, it is visited by almost a million travelers per year.
