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Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone in the Afterglow
• Front Cover (119 KB pdf)
• Table of Contents (460KB pdf)
• Introduction (526KB pdf)
• Chapter 1 - The Role of Fire in Yellowstone (722KB pdf)
• Chapter 2 - The Summer of 1988 (1.4 MB pdf)
• Chapter 3 - The Human Aftermath (684KB pdf)
• Chapter 4 - Changes in the Landscape (1.1 MB pdf)
• Chapter 5 - Wildlife (867KB pdf)
• Chapter 6 - Watershed & Stream Dynamics (787KB pdf)
• Afterword - Issues in Yellowstone (258KB pdf)
• Back Cover (10KB pdf)
• Full Document (5.8MB pdf)
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.

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