When did humans first reach North America from Asia via the Bering Land Strait? Was it 15,000 years ago...or 30,000 years ago?

It’s not your usual image of Banff National Park, but it is captivating in its own way. In the background, there’s a faint blur of a train barreling down a wilderness track on top of a grassy, sloped hill. In the foreground, a young black bear — caught with its hind legs on the ground and its front legs suspended in mid-air — races to safety through an opening in the thick brush.

As Yellowstone National Park is moving from winter into the season of rebirth, spring, so too is the Yellowstone Forever organization being reborn, so to speak, with new leadership, a leaner budget, closer operational scrutiny, and a renewed commitment to supporting the park.

The coronavirus pandemic that began to sweep across the United States a year ago greatly impacted 2020 visits to the National Park System, as the tally of 237 million was down by nearly a third from 2019 visitation, the National Park Service announced Thursday.