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Craters of the Moon
Travel Times

About 15,000 years ago the first people walked to Craters of the Moon. Just a few hundred years ago people traveled there on horses, then wagons. And now you're going there in a bus. See how long it would have taken to do the trip on foot or horseback.

Bus odometer reading (miles)
End of trip:
subtract

Beginning of trip:
equals



A walker, horse rider, or wagon goes about 2 miles per hour. To see how long this trip would have taken in the old days, take the total miles and divide it by 2 miles per hour.


total miles / 2 miles per hour
=
total hours of travel.

You only travel about 10 hours a day. To see how many days your trip would take, divide the total hours of travel by 10 hours per day.


total hours of travel / 10 hours per day
=
total days of travel.
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Plants and Animals of
Craters of the Moon

Place a check by plants and animals you see at Craters.
PLANTS
Indian paintbrush
Scabland penstemon
Antelope bitterbrush
Sagebrush
Rabbit brush
Prickly pear cactus
Syringa
Limber pine
Quaking aspen
Douglas fir

MAMMALS
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Yellow-bellied marmot
Pika
Golden-mantled ground squirrel
Yellow pine chipmunk
Coyote
Red Fox
Mule deer
Pronghorn

OTHERS


BIRDS
Northern Harrier
Golden eagle
American kestrel
Mourning dove
Red-naped sapsucker
Violet-green swallow
Black billed magpie
Common raven
Clark's nutcracker
Mountain bluebird
Rock wren
American Robin
Western tanager
Rufous-sided towhee
Brewer's blackbird

REPTILES
Gopher snake
Western rattlesnake
Western skink
Western toad