'Crews battle blaze at Yellowstone National Park'
(http://tinyurl.com/yb3arue)

Here we go again. They will fight the fire from the air or from the
road. But in the park the policy is not to go off road to fight the
fire. It is bad, but then it was ready to burn.

Periodic updates are available directly from YNP at

Periodic updates are available directly from YNP at

http://www.nps.gov/yell/parknews/09099.htm

or at

http://www.inciweb.org/state/52/

There are at least 3 other fires currently burning in YNP. In total there
have been 20 fires this summer, but most haven't exceeded 1/2 acre in size.

We drove along the lake road late Friday morning just hours before it was
closed for 4-5 hours. The smoke was very thick making it difficult to see
oncoming vehicles that didn't have their lights on. The road was briefly
closed again Saturday afternoon and reopened only for traffic escorted by
YNP vehicles.

We are 35 miles north of the north entrance to YNP and the smoke has been
around all day. We can't smell smoke, but everything looks hazy. Besides
the fires in YNP there is a fire near the Bridger Bowl Ski area north of
Bozeman, MT, so it is hard to tell where the smoke is coming from.

Ron Recer wrote:

Periodic updates are available directly from YNP at

http://www.nps.gov/yell/parknews/09099.htm

or at

http://www.inciweb.org/state/52/

There are at least 3 other fires currently burning in YNP. In total
there have been 20 fires this summer, but most haven't exceeded 1/2 acre
in size.

We drove along the lake road late Friday morning just hours before it was
closed for 4-5 hours. The smoke was very thick making it difficult to
see oncoming vehicles that didn't have their lights on. The road was
briefly closed again Saturday afternoon and reopened only for traffic
escorted by YNP vehicles.

We are 35 miles north of the north entrance to YNP and the smoke has been
around all day. We can't smell smoke, but everything looks hazy.
Besides the fires in YNP there is a fire near the Bridger Bowl Ski area
north of Bozeman, MT, so it is hard to tell where the smoke is coming
from.

Just an FYI... But YNP is a very ambiguous acronym for Yellowstone
considering Yosemite National Park is often referred to as YNP in and
around Yosemite. You can actually buy souvenirs in Yosemite that use the
YNP acronym. It's probably best in this newsgroup to avoid using the YNP
acronym when referring to either Yosemite or Yellowstone.


- Peter

You are right. We spend 2-4 months in the Yellowstone area every summer and

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'Crews battle blaze at Yellowstone National Park'
(http://tinyurl.com/yb3arue)

Here we go again. They will fight the fire from the air or from the
road. But in the park the policy is not to go off road to fight the
fire. It is bad, but then it was ready to burn.

Ron Recer <RonRecer at (no spam) aol.com> wrote:
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'Crews battle blaze at Yellowstone National Park'
(http://tinyurl.com/yb3arue)

Here we go again. They will fight the fire from the air or from the
road. But in the park the policy is not to go off road to fight the
fire. It is bad, but then it was ready to burn.

SNIP

Based on what the weather maps are looking out, I'd hazard a
prediction that Mom Nature will put out the fires with no help from us.


Bill

Yep, see today's fire report from Yellowstone NP at: