| Fires of ’88 - 20th Anniversary Collection |
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The Fire Season of 1988
began with a single lighning strike on June 22. In all there were nearly 250 different fires in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem between June and August. Seven of them were responsible for 95% of the total burned area. On August 20, the single worst day of the fires and later dubbed "Black Saturday", more than 150,000 acres were consumed during one of many firestorms. Slightly more than 1/3 of the park was affected by fire, a total of 793,880 acres.
Cooler weather in mid-September that brought rain and snow calmed the fires down substantially throughout the park, yet the fires continued to burn well into the middle of November.
Rebirth and the cycle of life:
Fire is a natural and needed rejuvinator of the forest. The recovery from the fires was almost immediate, with plants such as fireweed appearing in a matter of days after a fire had passed. Today the regrowth in Yellowstone from the fires of ’88 as well as before and since then is constantly ongoing. This offers us another unique opportunity to look into the wonders of Yellowstone National Park.
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