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UPDATED: Fire East Of Yellowstone National Park Has Planes Scooping Water From Yellowstone Lake

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By NPT Staff - July 22nd, 2017

Planes similar to this one had been expected to be scooping water out of Yellowstone Lake for about a week, requiring a partial closure of the lake to watercraft/NPS

Editor's note: This updates with the water scooping being called off.

It was a good plan, but in the end it wasn't necessary. And so Yellowstone Lake will not be used by planes scooping water for use on a fire in the Shoshone National Forest, and so the watercraft closure for the lake has been lifted.

Yellowstone National Park officials say the fire bosses decided they wouldn't need the lake water after all in their efforts on the 2,000-acre June Fire.

Initially, the plan was to have two planes scooping water out of the lake to dump on the fire burning in the June Creek drainage about 13 miles from Yellowstone's East Entrance. The fire is threatening approximately 200 structures and residences. 

The lake closure was expected to last about a week, the release said, but in the end it didn't even last a day.

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