Word: summer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always has. Bison and elk graze side by side on Swan Lake Flats, and the evening chorus of coyotes calling one another to the hunt echoes hauntingly again across canyons. And soon the RVs, the Conestoga wagons of the late 20th century, will be circling up in campgrounds during summer evenings...
...dating to 1963, postulates that nature, not man, should be allowed to deal most of the cards in Yellowstone. Fires naturally started by lightning strikes have been left to burn in the park since 1972 unless they have seriously threatened lives or property. In the 16 years before last summer, there had been 233 such fires, which consumed a modest 34,157 acres. But the policy became increasingly controversial last July and August as the fires and smoke repeatedly drove tourists from the park. This, in turn, made federal officials in Washington as skittish as yellow-bellied marmots...
Though the fiery summer of 1988 scared away tourists, it had relatively little impact on Yellowstone's animals, compared with the normal rigors of winter. The fires killed only 335 of the 31,000-member elk herd. But a harsh winter eliminated almost 5,000 more, and their carcasses lie in various states of decomposition throughout the park...
...conflagration was devastating to the area's tourist industry and thus stirred protests against the Park Service's long-established policy of letting natural fires burn. In response, the Government has decreed that all this summer's blazes will be strenuously suppressed. But environmentalists insist that such human intervention threatens the natural cycle of forest renewal...
...roguish stars, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, shine as the Jones boys in the latest of George Lucas' crusading adventures, kicking off this summer of sequels...