The Story Behind the Yellowstone Fires of 1988 | Retro Report | The New York Times

Bullsh1t! The Marxist crybabies stopped park handlers from spraying for pine beetles, demanded ALL the fire roads, fire breaks, fire road bridges and water lines be removed. THEN when it burned, the same crybaby Marxist democrats screamed for somebody to do something.
I was there about 8 months before it burned and the place looked like heck, all gray and dead.
This is what happens when the government listens to turd-sniffing doped up hippy Marxist morons!!!!

Anybody here in (almost) 2025? Greetings from the West Coast: Where fires worse than this are annual events.

It's actually sort of comical how naive we were.

I was on that fire I was 21

I remember this one fire

He speaks of “models”, but that was the worst drought we had in a very long time, and from the onset these fires grew very quickly. There was outcry almost immediately and it was a daily reminder as we lived just outside of Jackson and was pummeled with endless smoke for months. People were upset at the policy to let the lightning caused fires burn themselves out unless it threatened structures or populated areas and they were not yielding, and still allowed the fires to burn until they started to merge. They had the same message, that “fires were good” for the health of the forest. I had worked at Old Faithful the year before, and spent much of my childhood in the park since it was so close to home, so I have walked and seen much of the park. I guess it is difficult for most to understand, but it is a magical place and part of me died with those fires. I refused to return as I wanted to remember what it was, and not what it turned into. I broke after 15 years or so and while there was still massive destruction, vegetation was back, though the sizes of trees were of great contrast and it was still a loss. As the years continued, I slowly started coming back more often and you can still see where the fire hit, and the damage that remains. You have to remember, this destroyed 1/3 of the park which does not seem like a lot but the park is huge at 3500 square miles. At the time I believed it would recover as they said, but certainly not in my lifetime. Almost 40 years later, I do enjoy going once again, and can tolerate the damage, but it is still not the Yellowstone I fell in love with. I guess it will be another 50 years or so before it returns as long as we continue to take care of it. Maybe start with limiting the amount of vehicles that can go into the park. Yet another surprise is how much the footprint has changed to make way for the increased traffic. The upper and lower loops are still single lanes which is awesome, but still too many people.

Maybe there have been natural fires since earth began??

There have been reports from independent observers on the ground that the USFS kept igniting fires to burn as much forestland as possible in the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire over the four months it raged on.

Fires are nature's way of cleaning house 😊.

Wow this is so sad

I am bitter. They let the Black Mountain fire burn all summer in 2003 until it blew up. We were evacuated just as the fire jumped the ridge over our house.

We were camped there in June. I seem to remember three small fires burning on the ridge above the campground. It was stupid. Trust your so-called models instead of your common sense.

During the wild fires that were blamed on Trump, I kept telling people about this and NOBODY cared to listen.
This has been known for decades yet the Majority of the country is easily tricked into believing a President has any power over State Policy.

btw I know you reading this, likely hate Trump and think I am defending Trump, well you are right.
When the Truth is against your Hate for Trump and you want to Attack and Hate people who tell the Truth regardless of their affiliation, you might have a serious error in your thinking.
So eh... gfys :D

Fire cleanses all

Love the Gadaffi comment. Too funny and so honest.

I love my Christmas trees!!

Okey dokey smokey.. like a meteorite

And now due to so much rain, Yellowstone is closed once again because of flooding 😭

Wildfires are part of the natural cycle

Bro the media is legit the enemy

Moral of the story: the public should educate themselves and not interfere with experts

Thanks to the Clinton administrations let it burn policy. I visited Yellowstone in 1989 and saw only two animals, a dead bird and a dead deer. Saw a whole lot of burned trees, and a new steam vent coming up through one of the paved driveways to a parking area. Got to see some of the pools and other features, saw Old Faithful erupt then left.

I went to Yellowstone during these fires. Intending to stay there for about a week. After 3 days we had to evacuate but the fires surrounded our escape road. We sat for 5 hours on the side of the mountain with 12 other cars while firemen watered down a pathway. We had to drive through a raging inferno with two fire trucks one at the front end one at the end of the caravan shooting water at the side of the roads to get us out.
Harrowing experience that I still remember to this day.

Remember those horrible fires at the beginning of 2020? The fires would have happened regardless, the only reason people got hurt was housing encroaching on nature. In other words, it’s our fault.

Yay for ecological succession!

If only they knew about all the fires that are happening now...

Is Biden gonna visit Oregon for the bootleg fire? That would be scary haha. Dementia Joe is so gone

im wish it all burned down

I’ve lived through tornadoes (so many I can’t count), earthquakes (though not major), hurricanes (including Katrina) and the 2016 Gatlinburg wildfire.
Wildfire terrifies the living daylights out of me.

“Just put it out”😀 okay, mhm. Very good.

I went to Yellowstone probably 7 years ago when I was probably 10 or younger and an old woman talked to me about how Yellowstone changed. She told me that all the trees there used to be green but are now dead. It's sad stuff to see old people have to experience the change that happened there.

And what saved old faithful inn ??? Wasn't the firefighters the fire leapt over the main fire caused by its own wind

Well if firefighters didn't set backburns I'm so against the stupid back burn stupid idiots

Imagine that. The news media crafting a false narrative. Ironic this is coming from the new york times.

. . . at a boy New York Times . . .

Here after the california wild fires in 2020

I was there and got run out of the Park by a ranger who ran toward us yelling you have to leave by the west exit of the park now !

Humans.. We can predict rain... We can predict weather... We can predict fires... We can predict natural disasters... We can predict what hits our planet from space.....

Meanwhile: We CAN’T PREDICT ANY OF IT!!

Nah. What happened is that Smokey accidently brought a match to start a campfire and dropped it on a tree when he was a cub.

I like this guy but hes still got his sense of humor

You can tell from how dry it is that it isn't going to be good

Wildlifes are part of nature but in area where ppl live controlled burns are needed imagine the fires that happen millions of years ago

In Australia we get fires all the time, and our main way of controlling them is "back burning", controlled burning in winter to clear underbrush and create fire breaks. One of the reasons why the bushfire were so bad this year was because there was little safe window to backburn as winter was very warm and dry.

I have been their multiple times and its as beautiful as ever. Nature is wonderful .

Went there today and there are still dead trees EVERYWHERE there are green ones but its like its trying so hard to rebuild. Its a Mess still. The National wonders was still Amazing to see. 😀

There is a fire! Let's set a fire!

When people realize that the earth will do what it needs to do when it needs to do it we will all be better off. The media knows nothing.

Wild fires are an inevitability in much of America. Stopping them from happening just causes the fuel to build up, and up, and up, and up, until a fire finally does light it, and the fire is far worse than it ever should have been. So, if we can’t stop fires from happening, we should at least ensure that they happen when and where we want them to. This is why controlled burns are a good idea. They give you the one resource that you lack in a natural wildfire, time. They let you plan, make backup plans, and ensure that these fires only happen when you want them to, and when you can control them doing so.

Fires are do have in forest some tree can’t grow new trees with out fire

MEDIA (don’t worry, I’m not blaming you NYT 😂😁): “OH MY GOD YELLOWSTONE IS GONE FOREVER 😩😩😩😩😩!!!!”

MEDIA: “YAAAAYYYYY 😁😁😁😁🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🤩🤩🤩🤩YELLOWSTONE IS BACK!”

ME: Ehhh...... DUUUUOOOOIIIIIHHHHHH 🤪🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂😂😂 OF COURSE IT’S FREAKING BACK! It’s called.....science. Ohhhhhhh 😯😯😯😂

Computer models not working? "COUGH" global warming "COUGH"