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The snow is temporarily off the trees in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. But it's mid-February; there's lots more snow to come, often into May, with sometimes a dusting in June

The snow is temporarily off the trees in Wyoming's Yellowstone Nationa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Swans swim in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. Early in the 20th Century, the trumpeter swan was hunted almost to extinction for its skin, feathers, meat, and eggs. The Migratory Bird Act of 1918 was passed in order to protect these and other endangered birds

Swans swim in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. Early in the 20th C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas, or volcanic cauldrons, in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in northwestern Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. Twice as high as Niagara Falls in the eastern state of New York, these are the highest-volume falls in the Rocky Mountains

The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in northwestern Wyoming's Yel...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The Thunderer, a 10,495-foot peak in the northeast section of Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park in the Absaroka Range of the Northern Rockies. The Thunderer, named by members of the Arnold Hague Geological Survey of 1885 for it propensity to attract thunderstorms

The Thunderer, a 10,495-foot peak in the northeast section of Wyoming'...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Wintertime along the Madison River in the western reaches of Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Wintertime along the Madison River in the western reaches of Wyoming's...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

It's wintertime, and there is plenty of deep snow in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. But less so here at Norris Geyser basin of steam-billowing vents, mudpots, and cauldrons called calderas, because their hot steam has had its effect on the surrounding snow pack

It's wintertime, and there is plenty of deep snow in Wyoming's Yellows...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The frozen Gibbons Falls in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

The frozen Gibbons Falls in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas, or volcanic cauldrons, in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

It's wintertime, and there is plenty of deep snow in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. But less so here in this basin of geysers, mudpots, and cauldrons called calderas, because their hot steam has had its effect on the surrounding snow pack

It's wintertime, and there is plenty of deep snow in Wyoming's Yellows...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Pristine snowy woods, save for a set of animal tracks to the left, in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Pristine snowy woods, save for a set of animal tracks to the left, in ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

American bison, or buffaloes, forage near the Madison River in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

American bison, or buffaloes, forage near the Madison River in Wyoming...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas, or volcanic cauldrons, in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas, or volcanic cauldrons, in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in northwestern Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. Twice as high as Niagara Falls in the eastern state of New York, these are the highest-volume falls in the Rocky Mountains

The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in northwestern Wyoming's Yel...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

An American bison, or buffalo, plods through the deep snow in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

An American bison, or buffalo, plods through the deep snow in Wyoming'...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas, or volcanic cauldrons, in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Swans swim in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. Early in the 20th Century, the trumpeter swan was hunted almost to extinction for its skin, feathers, meat, and eggs. The Migratory Bird Act of 1918 was passed in order to protect these and other endangered birds

Swans swim in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. Early in the 20th C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas, or volcanic cauldrons, in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Evergreens in snow in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Evergreens in snow in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas, or volcanic cauldrons, in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

It's wintertime, and there is plenty of deep snow in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. But less so here in this basin of geysers, mudpots, and cauldrons called calderas, because their hot steam has had its effect on the surrounding snow pack

It's wintertime, and there is plenty of deep snow in Wyoming's Yellows...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Yellowstone Canyon, reaching down to the Yellowstone River in northwestern Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Canyon, reaching down to the Yellowstone River in northwes...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas, or volcanic cauldrons, in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A wintertime view of Gibbons Falls in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

A wintertime view of Gibbons Falls in Wyoming's Yellowstone National P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

This is not one of the famous hot-springs geysers erupting in the distance across Yellowstone Lake in northwestern Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. It's smoke from a sizable forest fire

This is not one of the famous hot-springs geysers erupting in the dist...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A wintertime view of Gibbons Falls in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

A wintertime view of Gibbons Falls in Wyoming's Yellowstone National P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Wintertime along the Madison River in the western reaches of Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Wintertime along the Madison River in the western reaches of Wyoming's...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

This is a river in northwestern Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. But it's not steam from one of the park's famous hot springs rising above it. It's early-morning ground fog

This is a river in northwestern Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. B...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas, or volcanic cauldrons, in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Ice coats the trees in, ironically, an area of extremely hot calderas,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Wintertime along the Madison River in the western reaches of Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

Wintertime along the Madison River in the western reaches of Wyoming's...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A snow-covered road in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. From the tire tracks, the road looks well traveled, but it's mostly by "Ice Cat" vehicles, a few tour buses, and strictly regulated snowmobiles; personal automobiles are not allowed

A snow-covered road in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. From the t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A coyote blends into its surroundings in mid-winter in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

A coyote blends into its surroundings in mid-winter in Wyoming's Yello...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

It's wintertime, and there is plenty of deep snow in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. But less so here in this basin of geysers, mudpots, and cauldrons called calderas, because their hot steam has had its effect on the surrounding snow pack

It's wintertime, and there is plenty of deep snow in Wyoming's Yellows...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A wintertime view of Gibbons Falls in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park

A wintertime view of Gibbons Falls in Wyoming's Yellowstone National P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More