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.

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 new growth that reflects varying ...

“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.

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 ...

Firefighting has seen many changes since the 1988 Yellowstone fires A 24-year-old Mike Gagen spent 80 straight days battling fires in Yellowstone National Park in 1988.

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

But in 1988 a huge drought turned Yellowstone into a quarter million acre tinderbox.A total of 248 wildfires burned, 50 of them in the Park,and by August, high windswhipped up fires into an ...

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.

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 ...

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.