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#009 - Yellowstone, Part 1: The History | The Supervolcano, the Nez Perce & the Wolves
Underneath Yellowstone sits one of the largest volcanic systems on Earth — a magma chamber the size of a small state. This is the longest history episode in the series, and it earns the length: the world's first national park is also a supervolcano, an 11,000-year homeland, and the stage for one of the most dramatic ecological recoveries ever documented.
Host Shawn Spainhour, a former Army officer, builds the whole story from the ground up — starting underground, with the hotspot that's been burning for 17 million years, the three catastrophic eruptions that shaped the continent, and the…
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