yellowstone fire

Yellowstone National Park officials say the first fire in the park has been burning since Thursday. According to a news release, the Elk Creek Fire is reported as being a tenth of an acre in size. It's located on a ridge south of Blacktail Drive and west of Petrified Tree in the northern part of the park...

There are no closures in the area.

In addition to jail time, Faustich was ordered to serve two years of unsupervised probation and he cannot enter Yellowstone National Park for two years.

The fire is listed at 29 acres.

A lightning strike caused a historic lookout in Yellowstone National Park to burn from the top down last month, park officials said in a news release Monday. The nearly 90-year-old lookout was located southwest of Mammoth Hot Springs and north of Madison Junction...