Timeline Tuesday 14 June 1988

Events on Tuesday 14 June 1988 1

• 1988 Yellowstone fires burn much of the national park Wildfires scorch nearly 800,000 acres A severe drought and high winds fueled a series of wildfires that burned roughly 36 percent of Yellowstone National Park over the summer of 1988. Thousands of firefighters battled the blazes before autumn snow helped extinguish them. The fires prompted a rethinking of US wildfire management policy.