Fire References & Links

Yellowstone Wildland Fire Management Plan (2004) (Link)

NPS Director’s Order 18, Wildland Fire Management (2005) (PDF)

Director’s Order 14, Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration, not available online

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Beetle, D. E. Recolonization of burned aspen groves by land snails, 5:3

Ewing, R. Suspended sediment in the rivers of northern Yellowstone, 5:1

Knight, D. Effects of the 1988 fires, 2:1

Lathrop, R. G. The 1988 fires and Yellowstone’s large lakes, 2:1

Minshall, G. W., C. T. Robinson, and T. V. Royer. Stream ecosystem responses to wildfire, 6:3

Roemhild, G. Aquatic insects and the fires of 1988, 2:2

Romme, B., and D. Tinker. In Praise of the Lowly Lodgepole, 14:1

Smith, C. (interview). Yellowstone and the news, 2:2

Tracy, B. Fire Effects in Yellowstone’s grasslands, 5:3

White, P.J., and Garrott, R.A. Why do elk eat burned bark? 1:4

Agee, J. K. 1993. Fire ecology of Pacific Northwest forests. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Anderson, H. E. 1982. Aids to determining fuel models for estimating fire behavior. National Wildfire Coordinating Group General Technical Report INT-122.

Deeming, J. E., R. E. Burgan, and J. D. Cohen. 1977. The National Fire Danger Rating System: 1978. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report IN-39. Ogden, Utah: Intermountain Region and Range Experiment Station.

Despain, D. G. 1990. Yellowstone vegetation: consequences of environment and history in a natural setting. Boulder, Colo.: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Inc.

Franke, M. A. 2000. Yellowstone in the afterglow: lessons from the fires. YCR-NR-2000-3. Mammoth, Wyo.: Yellowstone Center for Resources. (Link)

Greenlee, J., ed. The ecological implications of fire in Greater Yellowstone: proceedings of the second biennial conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Fairfield, Wash.: International Association of Wildland Fire.

Houston, D. B. 1973. Wildfires in northern Yellowstone National Park. Ecology 54(5):1111–1117.

Lynch, H. L., R. A. Renkin, R. L. Crabtree, and P. R. Moorcroft. 2006. Insect–fire interactions in Yellowstone National Park: the influence of historical mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) activity on the spatial pattern of the 1988 Yellowstone fires. Pages 109–118 in A. Wondrak Biel, ed., Greater Yellowstone Public Lands: A Century of Discovery, Hard Lessons, and Bright Prospects. Proceedings of the 8th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. October 17–19, 2005, Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park, Wyo.: Yellowstone Center for Resources. (PDF)

National Interagency Fire Center. 2004. Interagency standards for fire and fire aviation manual NFES 2724, Boise, Idaho.

Renkin, R. A., and D. G. Despain. 1992. Fuel moisture, forest type, and lightning-caused fire in Yellowstone National Park. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research 22:37–45.

Romme, W. H. 1982. Fire and landscape diversity in subalpine forests of Yellowstone National Park. Ecological Monographs 52(2):199–221.

Romme, W. H., and D. G. Despain. 1989. Historical perspective on the Yellowstone fires of 1988. Bioscience 39(10):696–699.

Thompson, M. T., and J. Blackard. 2006. Analysis of 1988 post-fire forest conditions in Yellowstone National Park from the 2002 forest inventory and analysis of Wyoming. Pages 193–197 in A. Wondrak Biel, ed., Greater Yellowstone Public Lands: A Century of Discovery, Hard Lessons, and Bright Prospects. Proceedings of the 8th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. October 17–19, 2005, Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park, Wyo.: Yellowstone Center for Resources. (PDF)

Wallace, L. L., ed. 2004. After the fires: the ecology of change in Yellowstone National Park. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Zimmerman, G. T., and D. L. Bunnell. 1998. Wildland and prescribed fire management implementation procedures reference guide. Boise, Idaho: National Interagency Fire Center.

Fire Effects Information System (U.S. Forest Service)

Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee, Subcommittee: Fire Management Team

Mt Washburn FireCam

National Fire Situation Report – (NIFC) (PDF)

Northern Rockies Coordination Center (U.S. Forest Service)

NPS Yellowstone Photographs (Public Domain): Fire

Rocky Mountain Research Station (U.S. Forest Service)

Teton Interagency Fire Website

US Fish & Wildlife Service Fire Mgmt

USDA Forest Service Fire Page

Official Yellowstone Website: Fire