From 1986 to 1992 McNamee served as a member of the board of directors of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and as its chairman from 1987 to 1989 . The latter period included the Yellowstone fires of 1988 — a trying time for conservation in the Rockies , because the role of natural fire in ecological succession was poorly understood even by many conservationists . He was an active participant for more than a decade in the effort to return the gray wolf to the Yellowstone ecosystem
Yellowstone fires of 1988
Yellowstone fires of 1988
Thomas McNamee