Atlas of Yellowstone

In May 2003, personnel from the University of Oregon approached Yellowstone National Park with a unique opportunity to produce a state-of-the art, data-rich Atlas of Yellowstone. This will be the first comprehensive atlas of a U.S. national park. The atlas, hoped eventually to be published in book form, will describe and explain the human and natural setting of Yellowstone National Park; provide readers with an understanding of how Yellowstone National Park is unique, yet also inextricably connected to the surrounding region; describe and explain the complex interplay of the human and natural processes and features in the park; and document the rich tapestry of dynamic changes in processes and responses across varying scales of space and time.

A seed grant for the Atlas of Yellowstone project was approved by the board of the Yellowstone Park Foundation, and funding by Eyes on Yellowstone is made possible by Canon is being used to create “page pairs”—two-page layouts of maps, graphs, charts, and text that explore the processes, causes and effects, extent, and dynamics. The atlas project is a partnership between Yellowstone National Park staff, the University of Oregon, and Allan Cartography. The following page pairs have been completed to date:

• Yellowstone: The World's First National Park (PDF 1,306KB)
• Ethnography (PDF 1,256 KB)
• Exploration (PDF 1,440 KB)
• Fish (PDF 767 KB), (Print PDF 1,316 KB)
• Grizzly Bear (PDF 270 KB), (Print PDF 1,076 KB)
• Fire History (PDF 954 KB), (Print PDF 1,400 KB)
• 1988 Fires (PDF 608 KB), (Print PDF 1,131KB)