• Visitors stand on the boardwalk of Grand Prismatic, the park's largest hot spring which is ringed with orange, brown and yellow runoff channels.

    Yellowstone

    National Park ID,MT,WY

Wetland Resources

Section Pages
Foreward (278K pdf) 3
Introduction (293K pdf) 4 - 5
Hardy Species: Wetland Plants (336K pdf) 6 - 7
Vital Habitats: Wetlands and Wildlife (602K pdf) 8 - 11
Misunderstood Landscapes: Wetlands and People (284K pdf) 12 - 13
Very Special Places: Thermal Wetlands (294K pdf) 14 - 15
The National Wetlands Inventory in Yellowstone (333K pdf) 18 - 22
In Closing (239K pdf) 24
Appendix: Wetland Classification and Acreages (132K pdf) 27 - 29
Literature Cited & Additional Information (160K pdf) 30 - 31
Acknowledgements (287K pdf) 32
The Entire Wetlands Document (2.8MB pdf)
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Did You Know?

Fire in Yellowstone Pineland in 1988

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.