Park fear 1( YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - Buffalo graze nonchalantly near flaming trees, but people are not reacting so cooly, and residents once worried about losing business to forest fires now fear losing their homes. Fire has destroyed buildings around the Old Faithful geyser and has threatened tourist towns on the periphery of the country's first national park. The Montana towns of Cooke City and Silver Gate outside the park's northeast entrance were evacuated twice last week. Jardine, Mont., neat the northern gate, was evacuated Saturday. Firefighters saved Cooke City and Silver Gate, but only by burning thousands of acres of forest to remove fuel from the fire's path. The so-called backfires left the once- picturesque towns flanked by black, skeletal trees. "All we can do... is herd it around improvements and structures and don't get anybody killed," said Bob Martines, a structure protection officer in Cooke City. The 2.2 million-acre park, dedicated in 1872, attracts more than The Michigan Doily - Monday, September 12, 1988 - Page 5 residents )sing 2 million visitors a year who marvel at geysers and hot springs, mountain scenery, and wild animals. But tourists have stayed away in droves this summer, and residents of tourism-dependent towns around the park have complained bitterly about the Park Service's initial reluctance to respond to the fires. "A guy gets really bitter when it keeps dragging on and on and on," said David Klatt of Cooke City, who spent three days in a motel room outside of town last week, waiting out an evacuation. In this summer of heat and drought, Yellowstone is suffering the worst fires in at least 200 years. Forest fires have charred more than 1 million acres in Yellowstone and in the surrounding national forests and parks in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. Each day, firefighters pray for rain, but at park headquarters near Mammoth Hot Springs this is the third-driest summer on record. Only 1.6 inches of rain fell at Mammoth in June, July, and August - one- third of the normal rainfall. It was also the hottest summer on record, with temperatures steaming an average of five degrees above normal, the weather service said. Though other areas are hard hit, Yellowstone is the top concern of federal officials. Of $250 million spent so far on fighting fires, $78 million has gone toward efforts around the park, said the Boise iomes Interagency Fire Center, which coordinates firefighting in the West. Since 1972, park officials has allowed lightning-sparked fires to burn. "In the past 16 years, we had 140 fires that burned 33,000 acres. That averages about 240 acres apiece before they went out on their own," said John Varley, chief of the park's research division. The fires help cleanse the pine forest. They clear deadwood, create new meadows for forage, release nutrients for new plants and free the pines' seeds from their cones. A cool, wet spring lulled park officials into believing this summer would be no different. But the heat and low humidity left the forest more parched than kiln-dried lumber: By July 15, when the Park Service decided to start fighting the fires, it was too late to stop them. Fire crew boss John Borton hag battled forest fires in the West for 19 years, by the blaze he had beeit fighting and sleeping near for 25 nights was something new. "This is the edge of a fire that goes back 50 miles," he said. "It's as out of control as it was six weeks ago. This is the most extreme fire behavior that just about any of u. has ever seen." JESSICAGREEN/DiOy The Lone Writer Debbie Adams, social work graduate student, was the only person working yesterday in the , Frieze Building computer center. Deroi lky to die violently, paper says Fire 1r DETROIT (AP) - Children under 17 were more than twice as likely to die violently in Detroit than in other major U.S. cities in recent years, a newspaper reported Sunday. Detroit's juvenile homicide rate b 1986,had become more than three tunes the overall rate in the nation's I largest cities, the Detroit Free Pess said. Guns alone have accounted for 37 deaths of Detroit youths so far this year, compared with 35 fatal shootings for all of 1987, the newspaper said. Drugs, crumbling families, and Rittention to children drew much of the blame for the juvenile homicide rate in the nation's sixth-largest city, vWhich declined in only one year litween 1979 and 1986, "We don't love our children enough," said Dr. Rosalind Griffin, a Detroit psychiatrist. "With a li micide rate like this, it can be said that we don't cherish or think of them as the future." The Free Press, citing a computer study it commissioned of FBI crime statistics from 1979 throught 1986 and related research, said Detroit's juvenile homicide rate during that period was 2.7 per 100,000 residents. Chicago was second at 1.9 per 100,000, followed by Los Angeles with 1.6 per 100,000. The overall rate for the nation's 10 largest cities was 1.3 per 100,000, the newspaper said. Detroit's juvenile homicide rate reached 4.1 per 100,000 in 1986, the latest year for which figures 'were available. That rate was more that three times the 1986 rate in the 10 larges U.S. cities, 1.3 per 100,000, the Free Press said. Detroit also had the highest overall homicide rate, 47 per 100,000 residents, among the 10 largest cities in 1979-86. Dallas was a distant second with 31.7 murders per 100,000, the newspaper said. "Detroit is a violent city, and it seeps over to the children," said Robert Trojanowicz, director of the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. "Violence begets violence. It tends to escalate until the method for solving problems becomes termination." More than half of the youths killed in Detroit in 1979-86, 52.3 percent, were shot to death. That rate was exceeded only in Los Angeles, where 54 percent of its young homicide victims were fatally shot. "In a fight it used to be getting someone to say 'uncle' would be enough," said Griffin, who counsels children and the families of young homicide victims. "Now, for some people, killing is the last word to say that you are right. Not only right, (but that) you are above society's rules." Drugs played a role in many of the slayings of Detroit children, whether they were innocent bystanders caught in shootouts or members of rival drug gangs, Wayne County Prosecutor John O'Hair said. "It's been going on for a long time with no light at the end of the tunnel that anyone can see," he said. Continued from Page 1 threatened West Yellowstone, Mont., and destroyed several buildings at Old Faithful geyser. Park officials Saturday ordered all families and nonessential employees to leave Mammoth, near the park's north entrance. But they were allowed back after conditions improved. Tobias did not know how many people decided to return. A mile from headquarters, firefighters sprayed protective foam Sunday on buildings at the Young Adult Conservation Corps camp, where fire destroyed a tent. "Basically with this cold front that's moved in it's going to put us kind of in a holding pattern. We'll see how it goes from there," Tobias said. "Let's just drop this wind and we'll be in business." However, Brian Morris, a Forest Service spokesperson in West Yellowstone, said: "It's not going to be with us too long. We expect warmer weather and a drying trend this week." CLASSIFIED ADS! 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