The largest single organism in the world could soon fracture into smaller pieces. According to research published in the journal Conservation Science and Practice, this enormous forest organism, known ...

Many birds call the forest understory home. The dense forest floor is the perfect setting for many types of birds to nest and ...

Humans had a reputation for being on the younger side of history’s children, with much room for evolution and development. A beautiful section of the natural environment revealed itself to be the ...

The Pitkin County commissioners want the U.S. Forest Service to pursue public-private partnerships to keep recreation facilities open in the Aspen area rather than close some of the more financially ...

Many aspen forests have declined in recent decades because of drought, insects and disease, and wildfire suppression has allowed conifers to replace aspen forests in some areas. White River National ...

The White River National Forest is asking for feedback by April 20 on a proposed management project that aims to use prescribed burning and tree harvesting to gradually breathe new life into aspen ...

The sound of quaking aspen leaves rustling in the wind. The way the sunlight falls through conifer branches. The sound of the river over smooth stones. These are just some of the things one might ...

Jill Johnstone acknowledges funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in Canada and in the United States from the Long Term Ecological Research Program (National Science ...

The U.S. Forest Service’s Aspen office closed Friday and will not open again until May, the latest example of the agency’s efforts to consolidate its locations here and in Carbondale. The Aspen office ...

Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 23, No. 6 (December 2012), pp. 1159-1169 (11 pages) Questions: Is the current aspen or goat willow populations in boreal old-growth forest a legacy of the ...