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Smoke billows over the mountainous backcountry near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in this image from August 23, 2011. Started by lightning, the wildfire is burning through insect-damaged forest, beginning the process that will renew the ecosystem.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat 5 data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
Published September 3, 2011 Data acquired August 23, 2011