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Park Quiz
Question 1 of 5
The caves at Lava Beds are called lava tubes. How did they form?
Lava flowed like a river, the surface crusted over into a hard roof, and when the lava inside drained out it left an empty tunnel, which is a lava tube.
The Modoc War was fought here in the winter of 1872 and 1873. What were the Modoc people fighting for?
A band of Modoc had asked for a small reservation of their own on the Lost River and were refused, and the war began when they would not leave their homeland.
A Modoc leader hid his people in the lava rock and held off a much larger army for months. The place is now called Captain Jack's Stronghold. What was this leader's Modoc name?
His Modoc name was Kintpuash, and settlers called him Captain Jack. He led about sixty fighters against a force that outnumbered them roughly ten to one.
At a place called Petroglyph Point, people long ago carved thousands of shapes into a cliff. Why do the carvings sit so high up on the rock?
The cliff was once an island in Tule Lake, and the water came up to meet the carvings, so the shapes were made from the level of the lake.
Lava Beds is a great home for bats. How many different kinds of bats live at the monument?
Sixteen kinds of bats live here. The one seen most often inside the caves is the Townsend's big-eared bat.