Aspen’s history is a dense saga – a multiple-plot short story that can bewilder the reader trying to follow all of the action. Its human players have been and still tend toward the colorful, creative ...

It’s not just the lodgepole pines that are dying in the Colorado mountains. Thirteen percent of aspen trees in the state are now affected by Sudden Aspen Decline, which is caused by disease and ...

Yellowstone has opened the eyes of experts to another ecological phenomenon, which has been linked to the return of wolves in the area. It has been explained in detail within the journal Forest ...

In an information update submitted to city council Tuesday, Aspen’s Forestry Program confirmed that it will be transitioning ...

The bark of the aspen tree, it turns out, works pretty well as a canvas. Shepherds in the West made carvings in aspen trees, and they’re still to be found in Colorado, California and other states. The ...

Riders during Stage 1 of the Colorado Classic in Steamboat Springs in 2019. Aspen trees are the mostly widely distributed native tree species in North America, found throughout many northern U.S.

The contrast of the smooth, pale gray bark and bright orange leaves of aspen trees in the fall is a sight to behold in Arizona's higher elevations. But this beautiful display is under threat from an ...

A grove of aspen trees grows at the Fort Klamath site in Southern Oregon. (Loren Kerns/Flickr) IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — Groves of aspen — tall, skinny trees with telltale white bark and fluttering, glossy ...

A local homeowner is suing his neighbors over the felling of aspen trees, the third lawsuit in two years in Pitkin County to center on the removal of trees near property lines. Filed Tuesday in Pitkin ...