A firestorm from the North Fork fire approaches the Old Faithful complex

Title

A firestorm from the North Fork fire approaches the Old Faithful complex

Description

A crown fire consumes the Yellowstone canopy in September 1988. Within the park, fires damaged around 739,880 acres - that is, 36% of the park's total land.

Source

Yellowstone Digital Slide Files archive

Date

1988-9-7

Files

Crown fire & photoshop.jpg

Citation

“A firestorm from the North Fork fire approaches the Old Faithful complex,” Fifty Years of Green: An Environmental History of Middlebury College since 1965, accessed March 28, 2024, https://omeka.middlebury.edu/fyg/items/show/307.