WILDFIRE!(Yellowstone National Park fires show natural cycle at work)

From: Animals | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: KNIGHT, DEBORAH | Copyright information

With flames roaring in Yellowstone National Park and elsewhere in the West, a look at how nature copes with forest fires may be surprisingly reassuring.

"YELLOWSTONE DESTROYED," headlines and certain western politicians screamed during the summer of 1988. Fires raced through the park, at times with the roar of a freight train. Oddly, the animals didn't seem to get the news.

As the fires burned around them, elk often gathered in the meadows, chewed their cuds,...

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