The 9th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, The ’88 Fires: Yellowstone and Beyond, will focus on the 20th anniversary of the 1988 fires in the Yellowstone area. It will be held September 22-27, 2008, at the Snow King Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Yellowstone is joining with the International Association of Wildland Fire and other organizations to host this conference, which will be both a first rate scientific meeting and a homecoming for the many people who were involved in the 1988 fires in Yellowstone. For more information, please also visit http://iawfonline.org/yellowstone/
Did You Know?
Prior to the establishment of the National Park Service, the U.S. Army protected Yellowstone between 1886 and 1918. Fort Yellowstone was established at Mammoth Hot Springs for that purpose.