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Progression of various fires in the Greater Yellowstone region, July to October 1988. In the northwest, the Fan Fire started on June 25, and was originally considered a threat to the town of Gardiner, Montana, just outside the park's north entrance. It was the most successfully fought of all the 1988 fires.
1988 White Mountain Fire. / 48.6067°N 118.4800°W / 48.6067; -118.4800. The White Mountain Fire was a wildfire in Ferry County, Washington, in the Kettle River Range, east of Republic, Washington. The fire was started by multiple lightning strikes in the upper reaches of Hall Creek drainage in August.
1988: 793,880 acres (321,270 ha) Yellowstone fires of 1988: Wyoming and Montana: Never controlled by firefighters; only burned out when a snowstorm hit. 1989 8,105,000 acres (3,280,000 ha) The Manitoba Fires Manitoba 1,147 wildfires in central and northern Manitoba in the spring & summer. 24,500 people evacuated from 32 communities.
Shoshone National Forest (/ ʃoʊˈʃoʊni / shoh-SHOH-nee) [2] is the first federally protected National Forest in the United States and covers nearly 2,500,000 acres (1,000,000 ha) in the state of Wyoming. [3] Originally a part of the Yellowstone Timberland Reserve, the forest is managed by the United States Forest Service and was created by ...
Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468.4 sq mi (8,983 km 2), [ 3 ] with lakes, canyons, rivers, and mountain ranges. [ 11 ] Yellowstone Lake is one of the largest high-elevation lakes in North America and is centered over the Yellowstone Caldera, the largest super volcano on the continent.
Don Gardner Despain (December 21, 1940 – May 23, 2022) was an American botanist, plant ecologist and fire behavior specialist, who specialized in the flora of Yellowstone National Park, and how wildfires affected natural ecology. [1] He spent over 20 years carefully investigating the effects of the Yellowstone fires of 1988 and how trees such ...
Three events between 1978 and 1988 precipitated a major fire use policy review in 1989: the Ouzel Fire in Rocky Mountain National Park, the Yellowstone fires of 1988 in and around Yellowstone National Park, and the Canyon Creek fire in the Bob Marshall Wilderness on the Lewis and Clark National Forest. In all three cases, monitored fires burned ...
Teton Wilderness is located in Wyoming, United States. Created in 1964, the Teton Wilderness is located within Bridger-Teton National Forest and consists of 585,238 acres (2,370 km 2). The wilderness is bordered on the north by Yellowstone National Park and to the west by Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway.