Research on the 1988 fires now provides a reference for assessing effects of more recent fires. Yellowstone will still maintain its beauty, native species, and power to inspire us.

Bare, burned lodge-pole trunks still tower over a new forest of pines less than 25 years old. The scar from wildfires of 1988 has been covered with a profusion of ...

Research on the 1988 fires now provides a reference for assessing effects of more recent fires. Yellowstone will still maintain its beauty, native species, and power to inspire us.

It was “Black Saturday,” the name given to Aug. 20, 1988, when wildfires burned about 150,000 acres of Yellowstone National Park in a day.

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 ...

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 ...

Billings Gazette chief photographer Larry Mayer, who shot many of the photos of the Yellowstone National Park fires of 1988, went back to some… "If I close my eyes I can still see the scenes of ...

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 ...

Stories from the Yellowstone fires of 1988, which burned approximately 1.3 million acres, were shared recently during a program at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody.

Twenty years ago this summer, smoke and wildfire blanketed much of Yellowstone. A third of the park burned that year in a national spectacle that prompted the largest firefighting effort in U.S ...

It was Black Saturday, the day 165,000 acres burned and the great Yellowstone fires of 1988 doubled in size in an afternoon. Convection clouds created by the firestorms could be seen in all four ...

A 24-year-old Mike Gagen spent 80 straight days battling fires in Yellowstone National Park in 1988. “That was probably the longest time I had been assigned to a fire,” he said. “Back then ...