Yellowstone National Park - Wildland Fire (U.S. National Park Service)

2008 Fires

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ID	Name	Cause	Start	Status	Size
0808	Crevice	human	12/01/08	out 12/03	0.1 ac
0807	Ash	human	9/28/08	out 10/10	9.7 ac
0806	Outlet	human	9/22/08	out 10/10	9.6 ac
0805	No Name	human	8/11/08	out 8/11	0.1 ac
0804	RV	human (RV)	8/05/08	out 8/05	0.1 ac
0803	LeHardy	powerline	7/30/08	out 10/10	10,361 ac
0802	Aster	lightning	6/26/08	WFU out 7/17	0.1 ac
0801	Elephant Back	human	6/13/08	out 6/13	0.1 ac

The Wildland Fire Program has two goals:

1. To suppress wildfires that are human-caused or that threaten people, property or resource values.

2. To ensure that naturally ignited wildland fires may burn freely as an ecosystem process.

Achievement of these goals involves maintaining fire readiness, reducing hazardous fuel loads, monitoring natural ignitions, and researching the effects of fire on Yellowstone's ecosystems.

To accomplish these tasks the Wildland Fire Program has several crews: Helitack, Suppression, Fire Monitors, and Fire Effects. In these web pages you will find information on the various parts of our program. Additionally we offer a current wildland Fire Report, information on Fire Ecology, the techniques of Prescribed Fire and Fire Suppression, and References and Links to wildland fire information.

The Teton Fire page provides additional info about other fires burning in the Greater Yellowstone Basin.

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For Questions about Fires and Visitations, please contact: Visitor Services.

Contact: Wildland Fire Website Manager