Winter’s Quiet Reservoir: How Snowpack Shapes Yellowstone’s Year
Matt Ludin
On a crisp January morning, when the air holds its breath and the only sound is the soft rasp of a raven’s wings overhead, it’s easy to think of winter in Yellowstone as a season of stillness. But beneath the slowly building snowbanks lies the park’s most vital engine. Snowpack – patient, glittering, and ever changing – is the reservoir that fuels the entire year. Every meadow bloom, every chorus frog call, every August riffle […] The post Winter’s Quiet Reservoir: How Snowpack Shapes Yellowston