In the parched summer of 1988, wildfires ripped through more than one-third of Yellowstone National Park during the most severe fire year in park history. Approximately 1.2 million acres scorched by ...

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The official further stated that the fire, which is 5% contained, is burning mainly in sagebrush and lodgepole pine timber. People are also reading… Caldwell, Lasell, Wagner still wanted in ...

The Pine Grove fire triggered the Phillips County Sheriff's office to issue a mandatory evacuation notice Tuesday for residents of Zortman and Pine Grove. A Facebook post from the sheriff's office ...

“Lodgepole pine cones need fire to open up their fresh healthy cones and release the seeds,” she said. “We're mimicking the wildfire here with our cutting and pile burning.

In the early 2000s, mountain pine beetles swarmed the basin, munching through and killing thousands of lodgepole pines. Nationwide, the insects have killed trees on nearly 8 million acres.