The 9th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, The ’88 Fires: Yellowstone and Beyond, focused on the 20th anniversary of the 1988 fires in the Yellowstone area. It was held September 22-27, 2008, at the Snow King Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Yellowstone joined with the International Association of Wildland Fire and other organizations to host this conference, which was both a first rate scientific meeting and a homecoming for the many people who were involved in the 1988 fires in Yellowstone. There will be a proceedings of extended abstracts available from this conference.