Aspen trees can instantly elevate your landscape with their shimmering leaves, striking white bark, and vibrant fall colors. Beyond beauty, they offer shade, wildlife habitat, and soil stability. With ...

Aspen trees are stunning landscape icons, but they face constant threats from pests and diseases that can weaken or kill them if ignored. From fungal culprits like Cytospora canker and Marssonina leaf ...

In the drought year 1879, the Lime Creek fire consumed 26,000 acres, allowing large stands of aspen to spring up. Photo by Jeff Mitton. On a leisurely drive from Ouray to Durango, I was puzzled by the ...

Previous research has claimed that the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 is helping restore quaking aspen in risky areas where wolves prowl. But apparently elk hungry for ...

The explosion of color in the high country this fall is overshadowing a hangover some aspen trees are suffering from the severe drought earlier this decade. A variety of factors have combined in ...

The restoration of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park has helped revive an aspen tree population unique to the region, a new study has found. Quaking aspen, one of the few deciduous tree species ...

Aspen forests help slow the spread of wildfires and could serve as fire breaks in Colorado and other southwestern states, according to a peer-reviewed study by Western Colorado University researchers.

On the shoulder of Kebler Pass, about seven miles west of Crested Butte, a giant lounges in the Colorado high country. The Kebler Pass aspen stand covers the equivalent of just over 100 football ...