Twenty years ago this summer, Yellowstone caught fire. The flames scorched about 1.2 million acres across the area, leaving the impression that the world's first national park had been destroyed.

The 1988 fires, which became known as the Summer of Fire collectively, were enormous, burning 1.2 million acres within the greater Yellowstone area including 36 percent of the park.

Twenty-five years ago, approximately 250 fires rolled through \nYellowstone National Park and its surrounding areas, burning nearly \n800,000 acres of park land. 25 years later, Yellowstone still ...

Because of the fires of 1988, considered a once every 200- or 250-year event, it’s unlikely that Yellowstone will soon again burn on such a large scale. “Fire is not random on the landscape ...

When the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park, which had been steadily burning all summer, blew up in late August, visits from tourists to the area slowed to a trickle.

Nearly three decades ago, huge wildfires burned about a third of Yellowstone National Park. The park has seen wildfires every year since, but the forests of new trees that grew in the scars of ...

Post-fire management was minimal, and nature took its course through most of the burned area. Because Yellowstone’s forests were remarkably resilient, the 1988 fires were not an ecological ...

Clyde Seely remembers the night of Sept. 1, 1988 well – Wildfires were sweeping through Yellowstone National Park and a thick cloud of smoke blanketed West Yellowstone. Now, 25 years later ...

More acres of Yellowstone National Park have burned this year than in any other since 1988, the park announced Thursday. As of Wednesday, 22 fires had scorched more than 62,000 acres in the park ...