After 55 years of travel across the country and around the world, last year I. finally made it to one of America’s iconic places – Yellowstone, the first national park and the ideal of what protected lands should be for sheer grandeur, conservation, and outreach. Why did I. wait so long? 

The inscription on the Roosevelt Arch, at Yellowstone’s north entrance, is a quote from the act that created the park in 1872: “For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People.” Those words ring true today. Joining a half dozen National Geographic photographers assigned to shoot the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem from the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to its northern border in Montana, my husband and I. canoed tranquil rivers searching for otters. We hiked a landscape alive with burbling pools and spouting geysers. We spotted wolves, eagles, and bison. We returned to our “real” lives renewed. 

This issue celebrates the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service and kicks off our yearlong exploration of what writer and environmentalist Wallace Stegner called “The best idea we ever had.” 

Adaptado de: Susan Goldberg, 2016.

Vocabulário (neste contexto): 

- sheer = puro; 

- grandeur = grandeza; 

- outreach = abrangência, alcance; 

- shoot = fotografar; 

- otters = lontras; 

- issue = edição, exemplar de revista

No que se refere ao parque nacional de Yellowstone, assinale o que for correto. 

01) O parque foi criado na segunda metade do século dezoito. 

02) Ele foi o primeiro parque nacional a ser criado nos EUA. 

04) O que se conhece por Greater Yellowstone compreende um ecossistema que se estende de Wyoming a Montana. 

08) Entre as muitas atrações do parque estão seus gêiseres e lagos de águas borbulhantes.