Throughout the mountains of the American West, carvings hidden on the trunks of aspen trees tell the stories of the ...

"One key misconception we sought to address is the belief that the impacts of climate change on aspen trees are solely related to temperature increases," Stoddard said. "While rising temperatures ...

Change is happening everywhere, but it’s how living things adapt that counts — a perfect example of this is aspen forests. A new decade-long study by University of Wisconsin researchers reveals how ...

After the summer months when tourism is tapering off in Flagstaff, the changing colors of the aspen trees bring people up the mountain to peep the rainbow of leaves on the San Francisco Peaks and ...

a quaking aspen so colossal it has a name — Pando, which is Latin for "I spread." You might mistake Pando for a swath of forest of thousands of individual trees. But in reality, it's all one ...

JT Thomas It's a relentlessly sunny day in the Rocky Mountains, and here at 9,000 feet, on the Grand Mesa in western Colorado, the aspen trees should be casting a shadow. But something is wrong in ...

But the aspen trees on lower elevations of the San Francisco ... They're going to provide information on how things are changing.” Aspens contribute to Flagstaff’s fall colors Every year ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed ...

I hear the terms used interchangeably. Answer: Popple (or poplar) are common names for aspen trees because their genus is populus, but many trees are in that genus. In Minnesota we have two native ...

A gang of Western tent caterpillars have taken up residence in acres of aspen trees north of Durango in the San Juan National Forest. The insects construct their silken tents on aspen tree ...

These trees are Colorado's favorite, and their genetics determine the color change due to a reproduction process called cloning. Some varieties, such as Quaking Aspen, are quite common throughout ...