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.

Fires play an important ecological role in many ecosystems, and Yellowstone’s native plants and animals are well-adapted to historical cycles of disturbance and recovery. Today the burned ...

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 skeletons of trees burned in the Yellowstone fires of 1988 tower above their offspring seeded by the very flames that destroyed their elders.

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.

The 13-member team is studying two fires burning in the 1988 fire scar. It has deployed special heat-resistant equipment with sensors, cameras and other instruments to measure things like ...

Bob Landis recalls vividly the day now known as “Black Saturday.” On Aug. 20, 1988, Landis was filming across Gibbon meadow, northwest of Norris Geyser Basin. Humidity was low that ...

These are the memories that cling to people like smoke residue 30 years after the historic Yellowstone National Park fires.

Twenty-five years ago, approximately 250 fires rolled through Yellowstone National Park and its surrounding areas, burning nearly 800,000 acres of park land.

The North Fork fire burned more than 531,000 acres in 1988, Yellowstone's landmark fire season. The Maple fire ate a piece of that burn area in 2016, taking roughly 45,000 acres in what became the ...

The 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park were the climactic act in the modern drama of wildfires. While the fire season of 2000 is consuming nearly as much as much acreage as was burned in ...