Three fires now actively burning in Yellowstone
Although the Owl Fire has been contained and personnel demobilized, the Beaverdam, Columbine 1, and new Promontory Complex are burning rapidly. All three are SE Yellowstone backcountry fires. Folks will recognize The Promontory, which sticks out into Yellowstone Lake. It is on fire.
Here is the Park’s wildfire page.
The Inciweb Page is usualy better, but it is overloaded and hard to access due to the demand for fire information.
Beaverdam Fire. Info is six days old on 8/12
Beaverdam Fire. Credit Yellowstone National Park.
Columbine 1 Fire. Updated on August 13, 2007. Text is now correct.

Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He has been a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and also its President. For many years he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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I will be in the park the 25 through the 28th of August. Any suggestions for wolf watching. Thanks Mark