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.

The forests that bounced back quickly after the Yellowstone’s fires of 1988 were full of lodgepole pines that possessed a trait called serotiny. The cones of serotinous pines spring open and release ...

LANDER - Firefighters managing the LeHardy blaze in Yellowstone National Park have already employed a variety of modern-day strategies to direct the flow of the flames, and to protect man-made ...

CODY — Stories from the Yellowstone fires of 1988, which burned approximately 1.3 million acres inside the park and surrounding area, were shared recently during a program at the Buffalo ...

But what did Yellowstone look like before volcanic activity blew several large holes in the region and covered huge swaths of land with thick lava and ash flows?

The massive fires that burned a third of Yellowstone National Park in 1988 captured national headlines, introducing many across the country to the destructive potential of large wildfires in the West.

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.

Graduate student and study co-author Kristin Braziunas samples dead wood in an area that burned in Yellowstone’s historic 1988 fires but did not re-burn in 2016. PHOTO BY: MONICA TURNER In 2011 ...

Resilience of Yellowstone's forests tested by unprecedented fire Date: May 20, 2019 Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Summary: Researchers describe what happens when Yellowstone -- adapted ...

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 1988, file photo, Larry Walters, a U.S. Forest Service firefighter from Higgins, Miss., watches the North Fork fire burn in the Yellowstone National Forest. Fire managers in ...