The National Parks: America's Best Idea altyazı (159424)

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MAN: One of the last jobs
I had in Yellowstone was


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delivering the
mail on snowmobile.


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There I was in the world's
first national park, and I


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remember going down
into Hayden Valley.


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There were bison crossing over
the road--2,000-pound mammals


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crossing over the road,
and it was so cold.


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It was about 60 below zero.


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And the bison, as they
breathed, their exhalation


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would seem to crystallize in
the air around them, and there


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were these sheets, these
ropey stands of crystals kind


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of flowing down
from their breath.


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And I saw them, and they just
moved their heads and were


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looking at me, and I remember
thinking that if I had not


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been on that machine, I would
have thought I had been thrust


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fully back into the
Pleistocene, back into


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the Ice Age.


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And I remember just
stopping and turning it off