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Article: Political fires still smolder. (Yellowstone comes back)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- August 7, 1989
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Glassroom, laboratory, sanctuary, zoo: Whatever this. wilderness was in the past, after the fires of 1988 it was also part moonscape. By this summer's end, some 2 million tourists will have driven between geyser basins and hiked back trails, seeing how flames blackened a half-million acres of this 2.2-millionacre park. But not to worry. As an extensive educational campaign-including roadside displays, museum exhibits and traveling lecturers -is at pains to inform us, the forests of Yellowstone will recover.
But even though tourism is up 9.2 percent over last year and the scorched earth is greening as predicted, the politics that flared with the flames are ...