In the parched summer of 1988, wildfires ripped through more than one-third of Yellowstone National Park during the most severe fire year in park history. Approximately 1.2 million acres scorched by ...

A pileated woodpecker is seen enjoying the spring sunshine in this April 2024 file photo. McLaren says woodpeckers often thrive after wildfires by feasting on the cambium of the forest wood.

"Now we see fires of that scale every year, just constantly," Kodas said. In 1988 one third of Yellowstone park, almost 800,000 acres, was scorched.

It's the Yellowstone conspiracy theory that's too loud to ignore: John Dutton is still alive, and his death is just a trap set for his fiercest villain. This is far from the only unusual ...

The fire was still burning when the 1988 image was acquired on August 23. The fires glow bright pink, and a faint pall of smoke hangs over the scene. If the image had been made with visible light, to ...

The effects of the fires of 1988 are still visible today as lush young forests grow amid blackened reminders of the summer of fire. Today, Monday and Tuesday we look back at the summer of fire.

The large wildfires in Maui can spread offshore and impact ocean-dwelling boats due to high winds and radiant heat, wildfire experts told Newsweek, refuting a new conspiracy theory spreading on ...

Unlike other species of pines, such as the lodgepoles that have repopulated Yellowstone National Park since a 1988 conflagration, ponderosas don’t rely on fire to open their seed cones and ...

Yellowstone got 2.5 inches of rain Saturday, Sunday and into Monday. The Beartooth Mountains northeast of Yellowstone got as much as 4 inches, according to the National Weather Service.

The Yellowstone fires of 1988 provide a good example of high-severity fire in a high-elevation forest. When wildfire comes through those systems, in those conditions, it’s often a “stand replacing” ...

For 15 years, the fire policy served Yellowstone well, Varley said. Fires periodically rampaged through a few thousand acres, but the recovery always proved worthwhile.