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The south end of Yellowstone Lake is sagging, so that water has flooded areas that were formerly forest. And there are a slew of brand new thermal features up in the region north of Pelican Creek, lots of new hot lakes and such. Now, I certainly hope the good volcano limits itself to such displays for at least another century or so, or even just a decade or two, so I can go back up there again and get a good look before the scenery gets re-arranged. It's such a great place and all, I will really hate to see it go. Still, we can always hope even cooler stuff will show up after the thing blows. I can imagine a Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes only several hundred times larger. It will take a few centuries to replinish the underground water supply of course, but maybe the massive smoke and ash cloud will begin a small ice age in the area, and get some nice glaciers going. Which would be a real need, for the glacial lakes and such are a great part of the park as well.