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• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 abstract "The Yellowstone fires of 1988 together formed the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames quickly spread out of control with increasing winds and drought and combined into one large conflagration, which burned for several months. The fires almost destroyed two major visitor destinations and, on September 8, 1988, the entire park was closed to all non-emergency personnel for the first time in its history. Only the arrival of cool and moist weather in the late autumn brought the fires to an end. A total of 793,880 acres (3,213 km2), or 36 percent of the park was affected by the wildfires.Thousands of firefighters fought the fires, assisted by dozens of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft which were used for water and fire retardant drops. At the peak of the effort, over 9,000 firefighters were assigned to the park. With fires raging throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and other areas in the western United States, the staffing levels of the National Park Service and other land management agencies were inadequate for the situation; over 4,000 U.S. military personnel were soon brought in to assist in fire suppression efforts. The firefighting effort cost $120 million ($240 million as of 2014). No firefighters died while fighting Yellowstone fires, though there were two fire-related deaths outside the park.Before the late 1960s, fires were generally believed to be detrimental for parks and forests, and management policies were aimed at suppressing fires as quickly as possible. However, as the beneficial ecological role of fire became better understood in the decades before 1988, a policy was adopted of allowing natural fires to burn under controlled conditions, which proved highly successful in reducing the area lost annually to wildfires.In contrast, in 1988, Yellowstone was overdue for a large fire, and, in the exceptionally dry summer, the many smaller "controlled" fires combined. The fires burned discontinuously, leaping from one patch to another, leaving intervening areas untouched. Large firestorms swept through some regions, burning everything in their paths. Tens of millions of trees and countless plants were killed by the wildfires, and some regions were left looking blackened and dead. However, more than half of the affected areas were burned by ground fires, which did less damage to hardier tree species. Not long after the fires ended, plant and tree species quickly reestablished themselves, and natural plant regeneration has been highly successful.The Yellowstone fires of 1988 were unprecedented in the history of the National Park Service, and many questioned existing fire management policies. Media accounts of mismanagement were often sensational and inaccurate, sometimes wrongly reporting or implying that most of the park was being destroyed. While there were temporary declines in air quality during the fires, no adverse long-term health effects have been recorded in the ecosystem and contrary to initial reports, few large mammals were killed by the fires, though there has been a reduction in the number of moose which has yet to rebound. Losses to structures were minimized by concentrating firefighting efforts near major visitor areas, keeping property damage down to $3 million ($6 million as of 2014).".
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• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 caption "--08-20".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 caption "--09-07".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 caption "Ground fires in Grant Village quickly climbed trees into the canopy and became crown fires.".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 caption "NASA Landsat project scientist Jeff Masek talks about the recovery of Yellowstone and how Landsat satellites detect its burn scars from space.".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 caption "Progression of various fires in the Greater Yellowstone region, July to October, 1988.".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 caption "The Clover Mist fire races north across the Mirror Plateau during a firestorm.".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 caption "This multi-coloured animation shows the different fires that ignited, combined and spread throughout Yellowstone from Jun. 30 to Oct. 2, 1988.".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 caption "Yellowstone's burn scars.".
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• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 direction "vertical".
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• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 image "Firestorm Mirror Plateu.jpg".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 image "Ground fire at Grant Village 2.jpg".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 image "NASA Landsat project scientist Jeff Masek talks about the recovery of Yellowstone and how Landsat satellites detect its burn scars from space.ogv".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 image "This multi-colored animation shows the different fires that ignited, combined and spread throughout Yellowstone from Jun. 30 to Oct. 2, 1988.ogv".
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• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 image "Yellowstone's Burn Scars.ogv".
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• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 subject Category:1980s_wildfires.
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 subject Category:1988_fires.
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 subject Category:1988_in_Wyoming.
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 subject Category:1988_natural_disasters.
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 subject Category:Wildfires_in_Wyoming.
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 subject Category:Yellowstone_National_Park.
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 point "44.6 -110.5".
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• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 comment "The Yellowstone fires of 1988 together formed the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames quickly spread out of control with increasing winds and drought and combined into one large conflagration, which burned for several months.".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 label "1988年黄石公园大火".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 label "Brände im Yellowstone-Nationalpark 1988".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 label "Incendies de 1988 à Yellowstone".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 label "Incendio de Yellowstone de 1988".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 label "Pożary lasów w Yellowstone (1988)".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 label "Yellowstone fires of 1988".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 label "Йеллоустонский пожар 1988 года".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 label "حرائق يلوستون عام 1988".
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• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 sameAs 1988년_옐로스톤_화재.
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 sameAs Pożary_lasów_w_Yellowstone_(1988).
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• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 sameAs Q995553.
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• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 lat "44.6".
• Yellowstone_fires_of_1988 long "-110.5".
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