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The Boundary Fire was a wildfire in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. First reported in the evening of August 23, 2018, the fire was located slightly more than a mile west of Waterton Lake in the Boundary Creek Valley near Campbell Mountain .
The Yellowstone fires of 1988 collectively formed the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames quickly spread out of control due to drought conditions and increasing winds, combining into several large conflagrations which burned for several months.
Glacier National Park is a national park of the United States located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border.The park encompasses more than 1 million acres (4,100 km 2) and includes parts of two mountain ranges (sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains), more than 130 named lakes, more than 1,000 different species of plants, and hundreds of species of animals.
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The Apgar Fire Lookout in Glacier National Park is one of a chain of fire lookout posts within the park. [1] The low two-story frame erection with a pyramidal roof was built in 1929. [2] The design originated with the U.S. Forest Service and has been modified and re-used by the Forest Service and the National Park Service in a variety of ...
Long before it became Glacier National Park, the park says, the Kootenai called the area “Ya·qawiswit̓xuki, meaning ‘the place where there is a lot of ice.’. There’s still ice. The park ...