Rebecca Sullivan Photography, Landscape Photography, Fine Art Photography, Fine Art Prints, Iceland, 

WESTERN HIGHWAYS

Trees in Yellowstone

During the summer of 1988, a bolt of lighting set a group of pine trees ablaze in Yellowstone National Park, a fire that was not initially extinguished due to the Forest Service's natural burn policy. It unexpectedly spread to a large part of the country's first National Park, destroying entire landscapes and incinerating buildings in its vast wake. It was not until late autumn when cool rains came that the fire finally died. Though the area has since naturally regenerated itself more vigorously than many expected, it will be decades until it returns to thick forests.