Excerpt from Greater Yellowstone Area Fire Situation, 1988 The Greater Yellowstone Area (gya) is made up of parts of six National Forests and two National Parks, totalling nearly 12 million acres, in northwest Wyoming, eastern Idaho, and south-central Montana. Management opportunities in the gya are coordinated by the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee, composed of three Regional Foresters, one Regional Director of the National Park Service, Forest Supervisors of six National Forests, and Superintendents of two National Parks. Fire management policies of the Forest Service and the National Park Service components of the gya are essentially similar. Two kinds of fires are recognized: wildfires, which mare fires that require an immediate suppression response based on land management objectives, and prescribed fires, which are fires that are managed in accordance with a written plan, with frequent monitoring. A wildfire is any fire that does not contribute to land management objectives, a fire that threatens human life, property, or forest resources, or a fire that no longer meets criteria in the fire management plan. A prescribed fire may be started by lightning or by fire specialists wanting to accomplish certain land management objectives. Each National Forest and National Park in the gya has a plan that delineates tracts of land where fires will be suppressed and where prescribed fires will be managed under specific conditions. Such tracts are often Wilderness Areas, where natural forces, including fire, are allowed to play an ecological role in accordance with the definitions of the Wilderness Act of 196a. The fire management plans are coordinated among the units of the gya, but there is much to be done to ensure that goals and suppression strategies are compatible, particularly along shared boundaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.