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Yellowstone National Park
Ninth Biennial Scientific Conference

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.
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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Last Updated: October 28, 2008 at 10:06 EST