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Yellowstone National ParkBull moose grazing in stream.
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Yellowstone National Park
D is for Deer
A male mule deer stands in the sagebrush.

 

 

The mule deer in Yellowstone have big ears like mules. 

 
Fire in Yellowstone Pineland in 1988  

Did You Know?
The 1988 fires affected 793,880 acres or 36 percent of the park. Five fires burned into the park that year from adjacent public lands. The largest, the North Fork Fire, started from a discarded cigarette. It burned more than 410,000 acres.

Last Updated: July 17, 2007 at 17:36 EST