Yellowstone National Park 1.) Looking southward from Butte over Lake Yellowstone from the eastern rim of the caldera, 16/9/08.
Everything in this photo is within the caldera with the exception of the Tetons. Grand Teton can just be discerned to the right of centre as a white pyramid.
The dead trees here are Lodge Pole Pines that, as I understand it, were burnt in the 1988 fires. These were so fierce that they sterilized the soil here so that seeds that were released from specialised cones by the fire were destroyed.
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