catch me on "fox nation" yellowstone is up next and will be back next sunday. 's you next time. ♪ ♪ >> that was awesome, journey to an unforgettable place. as we celebrate the oldest national park in our great nation. >> we're on war way to

yellowstone national park. >> this is yellowstone on its 150 birthday. >> it is the best. landing in wild west of cheyenne, wyoming, we step into life on the range. >> all right you are going down. >> people to catch firve fish. >> we head north to kasper for a fly fishing e excursion and make our way to yellow stone. to discover her natural springs and wildlife and everything that makes it national park an unparalleled nature rally beauty for all of tauzi --

to enjoy. >> we ar we have a tweet ride. >> a sneak peak of a new "fox nation" show from actor kevin costner. >> america is so big. yellowstone reminds you of what the country might have looked like. rivers step gl flow and mountains still stand, they never fail to take my breath away. we're highlights will park that started it all, this is park'd.

♪ ♪ >> welcome to the special edition of park'd. i am abby this is yellowstone national park. we'll commemorate 150 anniversary of the park with its breadth taking features and the beauty that the west has to offer in wyoming. we'll look at the culture and event that attracts people from the world. onone that county spend years preparing for then fly fishing, then a glimpse of a fox nation special series posted by kevin costner here iniol lo yellow stone, it

is a true "national treasure." i location with roll in pre serving our nation's park. grant signs the yellowstone national protection law in 1872, and the park's attendance has grown exponentially in 2020, 5 million visitors entered the gates of the park, making it one of the most popular adventures. this year we're lucky enough to see it in all of its glory. but first important to see how we got here, it began at world's largest outdoor rodeo. ♪ ♪ here in america, rodeos have been around since 1800s. and ever since then, they have been emblematic of hard

working american. as if every day ranch skills were not difficult enough, here they are elevated to a high level competition. it is a sign of grit and bravery, we're here at cheyenne frontier days, the daddy of them all, this has been around for over 125 years. and the world's largest outdoor rodeo and celebration. to find out more our journey starts in wyoming a capital of cheyenne. >> we were nicknamed daddy of them all by the cowboys, i think most that tradition comes from. how they respect this rodeo. tom, is ceo of cheyenne frontier days, a former rodeo athlete whose family has been involved here since day one. >> cheyenne was an old dusty cowtown and the union

pacific goes through, people out of denver were trying to figure out how they would revitalize cheyenne, a guy game from denver -- came from denver, he was getting on the train and watched cowboys they had a horse they were trying to load in a box cart, he said, i think this is what people top see, two months later, we had our first cheyenne frontier's day. they brought them up on trains in denver community, so many people here and then we expanded to cheyenne frontier days. >> talking to tom put into focus values, he, hi staff and crowd find the important, two thing he shared. >> you know we feel like there are two heroes in the world. that will always stan the test of time that is cowboys and the military, ther they

will always be here, we revolve everything that we do around those two heroes. >> rodeos have been around since 1800s, how do you think they have become a stap istaple of the american frontier. >> a sport that honors the cowboy, we go back stoo t back to the roots of america, people are looking for those roots, we start every one with a prayer and the national anthem. and nobody takes a knee unless they are praying. >> about 4 50,000 people come through town for this. to give perspective to that number. cheyenne's population is only 60 thousand. that is nearly 8 times the number of people the area normally sees. that is part of the reason why over time cheyenne frontier days expanded to a

pull western celebration, carnivals, parades, air shows, concerts with big names but it is more. >> about honoring the west and the way the west was. >> those western skills on full display like roping, something i learned is not so easy. >> i apologize in advancement i am going slow. almost there. ♪ ♪ >> rodeo is made up of 9 skilled events. you have bare back, saddle bronc and bull rising barrel racing, breakaway roping and more. ♪ ♪ a lot of athletes here have prepared for years for the

few seconds they have out there on the dirt. >> all we know, this is what we were born to do. >> this is the moment for these cowboys and cowgirls, cash prize, up to $1 million. >> that 10 seconds is slow motion for me, i can see it and feel is and watch it back, it happens like that. there is nothing else in the world that matters in that moment, it is you and that horse, get off and you hear crowds give it back to you it is special. >> as fun as it is. it does come with a cost. >> not a sport for the faint of heart. have you to to play, god blocks out for you -- good looks out for you, if you are scared, you have no business being in this

sport, if you are scared, you will getting hurt. >> skills are more than physical, they are mental, a huge part of success comes from connecting with the animal. >> it is a relationship, you have to react off of them. you have to be reading, how they are going and where they are going. some of them drag their nose through the dirt and throw hear head back to you. >> hard to believe that in a setting like this one. athletes are still able to remain calm. and while there are many reasons why someone might compete, i talked with a cowboy who told me what draws him to an event like this. >> i love is standing for the flag and we pray before the rodeo, nothing says

america more than that, i think it is the best sport in the world. >> coming up the park'd team journey to yellowstone continues as we go fly fishing. >> right there, hand off the reel, good. >> this is park'd.

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♪ ♪ >> we just left cheyenne, we had a great time at the rodeo, now we're on the road to yellowstone, making a pitstop in casper, wyoming to try our hand at fly fishing, until then we are taking in all of beautiful scenery along the way. fly fishing is off to a good start, i got a new pet.

let's do some fly fishing. casper, wyoming is about 180 miles north of cheyenne and known for its fly fishing, we hear there is a high fish number in gray reef stretch of north platt river. we're meeting with blake with crazy rainbow fly fishing do you think we'll get one. >> jump on it. >> i would love to. we caught the 360 cam, now time to go cas -- catch fish. the north platt river is

legendary for anyone that wants to cast a line, it is bring luck to a novice like me. our new friend blake offered to show me the basics. >> the setting motion is just if it bounces or ticks, you pick it up, nothing is there, you throw it back out. >> got it. >> other part, trying to get a good drift. in a drift, we want that bubble to float dead in the current, bugs marchly don naturally don't go across the current. >> they very strong bug. >> right. >> how often do you want to recast. >> cast as little as often, casting is a tool used to presents the flies properly, if you is maintain the drift, get as long as a drift of possible that increases the odds of catching a fish. >> after a few tips, i had to work on getting my form down. how hard backwards do i glpt

hard eno. >> hard enough,ure all right go for it. you are good. good. that is it. >> i practiced my casting motion a few times, it was go time. while blake put in hard work paddling i cast and mended my line, it took time, but finally, i got my first bite. >> set, set. let go of the line. >> okay. >> look at him jump. >> lift the rod, high, good. keep cranking. >> he let go. >> he is still there, keep rod tip up, high. and we'll keep gaining on him every chance we get. >> he is taking off. >> keep cranking. good. you will keep hand off the

reel. stop right there you will keep bringing rod tip back toward me up and over my head. >> get him. >> well done. >> we got him. >> all right, buddy we'll let you go. blake ou taught me how to safely put our first catch of the day back in the water, so we could try for another one. let you grab him out of the nit, good fish, too. >> swim away. >> give him a 2nd. >> >> congrats, okay. >> i like it. >> you are a good teacher, blak blake. >> i love it is catch and release, there is a respect for the fish. >> and it would be a greatic pa experience for someone else in the future. >> after stopping for a quick lunch on bank of the river we regrouped and blake

and i setback out to see what else we could catch. >> we're here fly fishing in casper, we should mention our final destination, yellowstone national park is also a popular place for the sport. people from the world travel to yellowstone to fly fish among the sprees a trees and grassy meadows. what about this river is great for fly fishing. >> it is you know this river has got it all with a mild water flow as far as current, it is conducive t to beginners and kids and families, the slow current could make for technical drive fly fishing it is a great challenge. >> i have no idea how but, i

fel felt another tug. >> hand off the reel. reel. nicely done, good work. >> okay. how did that go? swim away. buddy. >> i messed the release up. but he is swimming away. >> that little guy didn't cooperate. but we were determined to get one more before calling it a day. >> i'm getting this one. >> smooth. >> my forearm is tired. >> this is park'd. >> nice. >> got it. >> come around. >> well done. >> this time i knew what to do. there he goes.

♪ ♪ >> we had such a wonderful time fly fishing on north flaplatt river and meeting incredible people, now we're headed northwest to our final destination of yellowstone national park. >> next up, we finally make it on our final destination. >> look our first bison. >> yeah.

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term. back to park'd yellowstone, enjoy. ♪ ♪ >> welcome back to park'd, we made it to yellowstone, 150 years ago, america's best idea came to light, established in 1872, it would become an icon, settled on a super volcano and known for its wildlife bike tlike the bison, here is a sneak peek of kevin costner's new series ecluesively here on "fox nation."

>> sometimes i think about things i'm going to miss most in my life, right? when i finally have to walk away. and sometimes it is not just my family, that i'll think of but the books i never read. it will be the music i first hear. -- never hear and sometimes the stories i wish that i would have known. i have grown up with the word yellowstone on allly life. my life, when i saw pictures of it when i was younger, i began to understand what was maybe so special about it most of us waswalk through life without getting below the surface, idea that i didn't know what it took for

yellowstone to be here, so that we could all enjoy it. from now and forever. was something that i realized i would have missed if i didn't hear it. when i did, like anything in life, when you see a movie the night before, you tell people, i saw the best movie, you heard a song you are in heard. -- never heard, i just heard the best song. when i read the story myself, i realized it was a story that i suddenly wanted to share. and that is what i do as a person, that is what i do as a story teller. as a person i was glad to know that there were people who done ho didn't hold the power, had a force of will they would in the give up, at least they would not give up the fight and for that i am forever grateful to be a part of their story too.

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♪ ♪ >> we are staying at lake yellowstone hotel it opened iin -- 1891, no hotel has stood longer in a national park than this one, we have

a sweet ride taking us around the park, lesley, here will be at the wheel, how is it going. >> very well. >> what is the story behind this vehicle. it looks like we're hoping in a time machine to mid 1900s. >> a sweet ride, a 1937 white model 706 national parks tour bus they built them for the national park, yellowstone had 98 of them, we have 8 still. it is the favorite vehicle for anyone to tour yellowstone. >> we're burning daylight, let's go. >> let's go. ♪ ♪ >> this is what you can't feel at home, the smell and breeze but. >> and see this look of trees that almost looks like telephone poles with christmas trees on top. >> a telephone pole with a christmas tree on top is a great way to describe these.

♪ ♪ >> right here is the most fame use feet our the yellowstone national park, this is old faithful. standing here in front of you can conceptualize what it like to be in a super volcano. how it works, under every single geyser. >> a constricttion, the pressure builds that funnels water up through the ground, that is where we see that eruption. the range of volume of water it pout put us on between 3700 and 8400 gallons

perfectperfect, eruption. now we wait. here we go, starting to erupt. i will step aside to let you take in the view. old-fashion full erupts once about every 90 minutes i they have park rangers to time the geyser. when i erupts, they noticed that ledge of the eruption helps determine when the next one will happen, the longer i it erupts the more water it is emptying out. what makes it most famous? >> geysers in the world as

well. of all world's tall geysers up over 100 feet, old faithful urun uerupts more often, it easiest to see. >> bison jams, bear jams and elk jams are common occurrences in the park, we experienced quite a few. at yellowstone you never know what to expect, we pull off side of the road here we have two elk, a perfect example how much wildlife you can see at this national park, take a look. >> right now we're on the way to haden valley to see bison, yellowstone is only placplace in united states

where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times. >> greatness of haden valley is there are thousands of bison in it but difficulty the valley is about 12 miles wide and the road goes through one edge. some days bison are all over the road and you can't move and the other days they are over the hill and you can't see them. >> what do you feel like today will be? >> i have high hopes we'll see some bison, i don't quite know. >> why do so many bison come on this area. >> they eat grass style plants, hidden valley is bottom of an old lake, the sediments here -- bison on the right. a single bull, sedimenting that acomm light accumulated here allows to grow the grass plants

easily, but does not allow the growth of trees well, there are isolated pockets of trees, but overall they treeless grassy valley. >> there a single bull right there. >> there was. >> it really is striking to see how many bison father togethergather together. if a bison is wondering by itself, probably a male, males are less likely to be afray be afraid of bears or wolves, females prefer the comfort of their herd as they care for their calves. >> coming up, one of the most i hav all across the country, people are working hard to build a better future. so we're hard at work, helping them achieve financial freedom. we're investing for our clients in the projects that power our economy.

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♪ ♪ >> there are over 10,000 made he hydronormal features this is grand pressmatic spring the largest hot spring in the united states, discharges 560 thousand gallons of water a minute tha is 160

degree fai fahrenheit. you can recognize colorful rings they are multilayered sheets of micro organisms, the component are clear feel and temperature. >> nex stop mountain paint pot trailer in will lower geyser basin. >> you know what mother buffalo said to the baby buffalo when she went him off to school. >> i don't know. >> anyone? >> bye son. >> i like that. bye son, i love a good dad joke. >> a remarkable air in yellowstone that shows all 4 times of thermal features in

the park but within a half mile walk, hot springs, and paint pots and funerals or steaming vents and geysers. >> we have other fun things here, the trees, over here, they were living at one time, they are dead now but wearing white socks, we call them bobby sock trees, they were killed by thermal run off, their roots have to breathe. run off channels shift. and when they shifted and overran the tries after 4 months the tree died as wood was drying down it whips up that mineral laden water that deposit in the base of the trees turning them white. >> where does that smell come from. >> hydrogen sulfied gas, the same gas in rot rotten

eggs. >> does not smell like flowers. >> mark twain noticed that gas when visiting the hawaii volcanos, he noted the smell of sulfer is strong but not unpleasant to a sinner. >> first feature, a hot spring made up of various colors, water in the spring makes it blue. the spring observed absorbed red end of the spectrum. >> that looks fake, now i can understand why it is call a paint pot it looks like paint. >> next is a dynamic feature that has har le far less water at its command, but oror owes its color from

the steam causing it to bubble. >> two left. >> fumerral and a guyser. >> fumer al, steam exudes some are louder some are quiet. >> i can't hear it. >> one left. the geyser. >> we were at. >> we have a set here, they are connected. >> always something going on, but they affect each other. >> we must be getting close to the geyser, i can feel water hitting us. >> it is spouting in our direction today it will not hurt you, it is boiling when it leaves the geyser it is cold when it hits us,

droplets have mineral and solution they can hurt glass, not they will etch it but deposit on it. >> magic happen here. >> coming up, i'll tell where you yellowstone got its name as we say good-bye to one of the greatest places on earth.

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does this mean i'm ready? i mean, technically, i guess, yeah, if you want to do it that way. ♪ ♪ >> we end our journey here at yellowstone river, in a way how it started. the national park got the name from this river after native americans called body of water yellowstone, they ansaw it glowing through yellow stand stone bluffs, thank you for joining us on

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