Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The fires of 1988 : a chronology and invitation to research / Linda L. Wallace, Francis J. Singer and Paul Schullery -- 2. Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history of the Yellowstone-Lamar and Central Plateau provinces, Yellowstone National Park / Sarah H. Millspaugh, Cathy Whitlock and Patrick J. Bartlein -- 3. Yellowstone fires and the physical landscape / Grant A. Meyer -- 4. Establishment, growth, and survival of lodgepole pine in the first decade / Jay E. Anderson, Marshall Ellis, Carol D. von Dohlen and William H. Romme -- 5. Fire effects, elk, and ecosystem resilience in Yellowstone's sagebrush grasslands / Benjamin F. Tracy -- 6. Elk biology and ecology before and after the Yellowstone fires of 1988 / Francis J. Singer, Michael B. Coughenour and Jack E. Norland -- 7. Effects of wildfire on growth of cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake / Robert E. Gresswell --

8. Stream ecosystem responses to fire : the first ten years / G. Wayne Minshall, Todd V. Royer and Christopher T. Robinson -- 9. Food web dynamics in Yellowstone streams : shifts in the trophic basis of a stream food web after wildfire disturbance / Timothy B. Mihuc -- 10. Role of fire in determining annual water yield in mountain watersheds / Phillip E. Farnes, Ward W. McCaughey and Katherine J. Hansen -- 11. Early postfire forest succession in the heterogenous teton landscape / Kathleen M. Doyle -- 12. Snags and coarse woody debris : an important legacy of forests in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem / Daniel B. Tinker and Dennis H. Knight -- 13. Fire patterns and ungulate survival in Northern Yellowstone Park : the results of two independent models / Linda L. Wallace, Michael B. Coughenour, Monica G. Turner and William H. Romme -- 14. Ten years after the 1988 Yellowstone fires : is restoration needed? / William H. Romme and Monica G. Turner -- 15. Epilogue : after the fires, what have we learned? / Linda L. Wallace and Norman L. Christensen.