Petrified+Forest+National+Park

by:Stephen T. It is best known for globally significant late fossils. Archeologists research 13,000 years of history on it. Air quality is an outgoing study for the park. All organic materials been replaced by minerals.

Petrified Forest is located in Holbrook,ArizonaThe size of the park is 160 miles long.The distance from Iowa to Petrified Forest is 2,320 miles away.
 * Location/Size/Distance**[[image:petrified.jpg width="400" height="262" align="left" caption="This is what painted desert looks like in the summer"]]

The park opens at 7am-8pm.The visiter center opens at 8am-6pm Winter 8:00am-5:00pm Spring 7:00am-8:00pm Summer 7:00am-7:00pm
 * Park Hours**

The climate there is spring and they get a lot of rain and summer which they get thunderstorms.Another is winter and they have an elevation of 5,000 feet and they have fall which gets colder.
 * Climate**

media type="youtube" key="IBiFQsL1uT0?rel=0" height="251" width="448" align="right" Petrified Forest National Park became a park in December 8,1962.Teddy Roosevelt help it become a park in 1962. There sites tell that human history in the area is more than 2,000 years ago. Petrified Forest wood is almost solid crystal.A spanish explorer named Coronado first came through Arizona in 1540. The Painted Desert was purchased and added on to Petrified Forest.
 * History**


 * Facts**
 * The reptiles play a big part maintaining health of the ecosystem.
 * That was about 225 million years ago in the late triassic time there were dinosaurs.
 * The Petrified Forest was set as a national monument 1906.
 * Over 10,000 years of human history can be found in Petrified Forest,including over 800 archeological and historic sites
 * Annual visitation to the park is 600,000 people.
 * On clear days in the southwest you can see landscapes from 100 miles away. Each year, tons of petrified wood are cut down illegally.

You will see ravens, lizards, other birds,and Amphibians.You will probably see late Triassic fossils and rocks and you will see hiking trials. You can see the visitation center and see deer and other animals.
 * Things to see**

I will probably go to the trials see the ravens lizards and other fossils.You can also ride your bike on the trials and you can go hunting.
 * Things to do**


 * Resources**
 * www.petrified.forest.national-park.com
 * www.answers.com
 * www.google.com
 * www.nps.gov/pefo/index.htm
 * www.wikipedia.cm