SUN STREAK PROJECT 5177 SESSION NUMBER: 01 CRV VIEWER: 052

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• Publication Date: February 26, 1990
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Fire fighters watch as the Storm Creek fire engulfs the forest near Yellowstone's northeast entrance
"We Could Have Stopped This"
Yellowstone Park's worst blazes spark a controversy
F or the first 100 years after Yellowstone
National Park was created in 1872, its
caretakers diligently protected its forests
from fire damage. As scientists learned
more about the balance of nature in areas
like Yellowstone, they discovered that fire
was sometimes a helpful, even necessary,
ingredient. Thus in 1972 the National
Park Service adopted a policy of allowing
spontaneous fires to burn unimpeded un-
less they seriously threatened lives or
property.
Natural horning has brooked little op-
position, but then Yellowstone has rarely
suffered serious fire damage. Until this
summer, that is. In the midst of the hottest
and dryest season in the park's 116-year
history, as many as ten separate fires have
raged over 582,401 acres of Yellowstone's
2.2 million acres, four adjacent national
forests and Grand Teton National Park.
ignited by lightning and whipped by high
winds, the flames have threatened some
of the park's most popular sites, including
told Faithful. Last week more than 500
tourists and employees were evacuated
from one of Yellowstone's main tourist
villages after the so-called North Fork
fire burned within two miles. The swift
fires occasionally raced into areas before
park officials could warn tourists to stay
,,v,..\. "We could have stopped this,"
complained one of the 8.000 weary fire
fighters battling the blazes last week.
"They won't let us."
Park officials maintain that they can
only con tai n the fires, not extinguish them.
Meanwhile. defenders of the natural-burn
policy trumpet its benefits: the flames
clear thick stands of timber and prepare
the soil for a new generation of flora. For
example, many of the seed cones of the
lodgepole pine, which covers 60% of the
park, only open after being exposed to in-
tense heat. Ecologists expect the fires to
help restore the park's depleted stands of
aspen trees and increase the wide array of
insects, birds and mammals that have
found Yellowstone's aging forests increas-
ingly inhospitable. "It's part of living in an
ecosystem that is basically wild and un-
controllable," says Louisa Willcox of the
Greater Yellowstone Coalition, which
supports the natural-burn policy.
But critics say it is irresponsible to
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