Wildfires in Yellowstone
by Carolyn Derstine
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Wildfires in Yellowstone
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Carolyn Derstine
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Photograph - Photograph
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Fire is key to the ecology of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. For the first 100 years, managers extinguished fires to preserve park resources. Today, the National Park Service aims to restore fire's role as a natural process. The park is required to protect human life as well as the approximately 2% of Yellowstone's 2.2 million acres that are considered developed (e.g., roads, buildings, and other infrastructure) from the threat of fire--while at the same time letting fire carry out its ecological role in the landscape as much as possible. This is a view over the valley in the northeast section of Yellowstone of the billowing smoke from several wildfires burning in September 2016.
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October 21st, 2016
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