Grizzlies in Yellowstone National Park are out and about looking for meals after their hibernation. One spotted by a pilot was drawn to a carcass that wolves were working on.

The National Park System is full of superlatives: the biggest, the smallest, the longest, the deepest, the rarest, the tallest, and on and on. National Parks Quiz and Trivia #26 takes a look at some of these superlatives while testing your knowledge and teaching you a little something you might not have known.

Who owns the national parks? The answer used to be decisive – all Americans, and for all time. Indeed our national parks, proclaimed Wallace Stegner, are “the best idea we ever had.” But some of our citizens regard the national parks as evidence of dispossession, places stained by the sins of a nation that is not their own and whose history they now repudiate.

Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Cam Sholly was a recent guest on National Parks Traveler's weekly podcast. While the first half of that conversation centered around the park's response to Covid-19, the rest touched on various aspects of Yellowstone, from the lake trout invasion of Yellowstone Lake and infrastructure needs to ongoing conservation work in the park. Here's a portion of that conversation.