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Acadia national park

Acadia national park . Kelsey Tremble. Natural Features. L ocated on the eastern coast of Maine, mostly on Mount Desert Island Includes a variety of ecosystems and diverse communities

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Acadia national park

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  1. Acadia national park Kelsey Tremble

  2. Natural Features • Located on the eastern coast of Maine, mostly on Mount Desert Island • Includes a variety of ecosystems and diverse communities • Protects beaches, shorelines, forests, intertidal and subtidal zones, lakes, ponds, mountains, wetlands, marshes, and swamps • Was not designed to protect one ecological feature, but rather meant to highlight the rich diversity of coastal Maine

  3. Climate • Spring and summer temperatures range from 30 degrees 90degrees F. • Fall and winter seasons see temperatures as low as below zero to as high as the low 70s.

  4. Wildlife Loon Beaver Peregrine Chick Jonah Crab Puffin Lobster Moose

  5. Threats • Air Pollution • Class I area under the Clean Air Act • Park must be under the highest level of air-quality protection • Non-native Species • 12 non-native plant species are of high management concern within the park • Visitation • More than 2 million people visit the park annually for recreation, bringing pollution with them

  6. Current Conservation Efforts • Propane-powered Island Explorer buses that reduce traffic, parking problems, and air pollution • Air-monitoring sites help to study the air quality and research ways to improve it

  7. Bibliography • Hanlon, Michael. "Claws for Concern? Scientists Suggest Prawns and Lobsters Feel Pain Just like Humans | Mail Online." Home | Mail Online. 9 Nov. 2007. Web. 18 Jan. 2011. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492557/Claws-concern-Scientists-suggest-prawns-lobsters-feel-pain-just-like-humans.html>. •  "Acadia National Park | OutsideOnline.com." Adventure Travel, Gear, and Fitness | OutsideOnline.com. May 2007. Web. 18 Jan. 2011. <http://outsideonline.com/destinations/200705/acadia.html>. • "Acadia National Park - Home (U.S. National Park Service)." U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America. 13 Dec. 2010. Web. 18 Jan. 2011. <http://www.nps.gov/acad/index.htm>.

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