Comments about ‘Fire in Yellowstone 72 percent contained’

Only government can give percentages so precise on something as amorphous as a forest fire. Did the park service reverse their "let nature do what nature does philosophy" after the great fire about destroyed Yellowstone?

This fire's impact was mitigated by a prior burn just like the let it burn theory suggested it would. We have th4ese things called satellites. They were developed by the evil federal government to take pictures. By using GIS, which runs of computers developed by another wasteful government program you can get a precise measurement of land areas.

Fox and talk radio never have programs about technology like NPR's science Fridays. Maybe they know their customers don't want knowledge they want things to complain about.

I hadn't hearr Yellowstone was destroyed.

* The summer of 1988 was the driest in the Park's recorded history.

* More than 793,000 acres (36% of the park) were affected by fire.

* Fires begun outside of the park burned more than half the total acreage.

* Humans caused 9 fires; lightning caused 42 fires.

* About 300 large mammals, primary elk, perished.

* $120 million was spent and 25,000 people participated in this firefighting effort, the largest in U.S. history.

* This huge effort saved human life and property, but had little impact on the fires themselves.

* Rain and snow finally stopped the advance of the fires in September.

More fallout from the 1988 Yellowstone fires

Air Pollution:

Carbon Monnoxide (CO)- 3,288,000 tons

Particulates (TSP) - 399,000 tons

Nitrous Oxides (NOX) - 93,900 tons

Hydrocarbons (HC) - 565,000 tons

Timber destroyed:

Enough to build 11,000 homes