Four convection columns of smoke rose more than 20,000 feet into the air as high winds whipped across eerily empty walkways around Old Faithful Inn.
“In all directions that we looked, it looked like the world was coming to an end,” Joan Anzelmo recalled.
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Nary a mention of beetle kill, which I recall was bad in the decade prior. Everyone knew the forest was going to burn. There was some post and pole logging outside the park. look at all the dead trees in the pics. They show as silver but around 1980 the needles were still on the trees and brown.
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This article leaves out how environmentalists have shut down logging over the years. Logging was a big part of the picture to help maintain healthy forests and control these Burns. Everything with a fire is natural in nature. Where Yellowstone burned in the 80s it is the healthiest looking Forest of any place in Yellowstone. The fires did it justice and were needed as well as other places. Let er burn policy is by far the best practice. If people build structures in the forest, they should just understand that there's a possibility that they're going to burn. Mother Nature knows what she's doing and we need to just let her do what needs to be done.
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