Melanie Ann Apel

Profiles a woman anesthesiologist who was a pioneer in medicine, graduating from medical school at a time when few women attended college and going on to develop the Apgar score for measuring a newborn's physical condition at birth.

Describes the forest fire that burned eighty percent of Yellowstone National Park in the summer of 1988, including park history, causes of the fire, how the blaze was put out, and how the park recovered.