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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 17 > Yellowstone heals after inferno of 1988 ‘Things were just explosive’ One result: a new way to forecast fire behavior

Yellowstone heals after inferno of 1988 ‘Things were just explosive’ One result: a new way to forecast fire behavior

Blazes changed the way wildfires are managed

By Matthew Brown By Bob Moen and Matt Joyce By Ben Neary / The Bulletin
August 17, 2008

BILLINGS, Mont. — As large swaths of Yellowstone National Park burned during the destructive fires of 1988, a small group of fire analysts descended on the park for a firsthand look at how massive fires burn.

From those observations, U.S. Forest Service researcher Richard Rothermel....

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