Fishes Of The Yellowstone National Park With Description Of The Park Waters And Notes On Fishing

Author : Hugh M. Smith
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260318305
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Fishes of the Yellowstone National Park written by Hugh M. Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fishes of the Yellowstone National Park: With Description of the Park Waters and Notes on Fishing It thus follows that the native fish fauna of the park is very limited. Except in Yellowstone River and its tributaries practically no fishes occur naturally above the falls, and in the extensive basin of that river the few species that do exist gained access to the re ion above the falls because of the imperfect watershed separating t e Yellow stone and the Snake River basins. The original comparative barrenness of the park in fish life was due entirely to topographical conditions. The physical character of the waters is, in general, highly favorable for fishes, and an examina tion of the streams and lakes of the park by Prof. Forbes in 18903 disclosed the presence in certain barren waters of an abundant in sect and crustacean food well suited for sustaining certain kinds of fishes. The theory that would account for the original absence of fishes in particular park waters as due to the high temperature and chemical constituents of the great volumes of water flowin from the geysers and hot springs is entirely untenable for severa reasons: First, native trout abound and flourish in various streams and lakes in close proximity to the outpourings of geysers and hot springs, and, secondly, both native and exotic trouts have been successfully planted in barren waters receiving the discharge of geysers and hot springs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.