The quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is one of Colorado’s most iconic trees and maybe its most dramatic. With smooth white ...

Colorado State Forest Service supervisory forester Kamie Long points out a bark beetle stuck in the bark of a dead Douglas-Fir tree on Ute. Mountain on Tuesday, June 7 ... The outbreak of Douglas fir ...

How to preserve aspen leaves. 1. Gather leaves on a sunny day, after the dew has dried. Choose leaves with no blemishes. 2. Press your leaves shortly after gathering, before they dry out.

When I think of a "cheery" tree, I think of quaking aspens. Why cheery you might ask? While there are no leaves this time of year, find one in the spring and shake a branch… the leaves tremble ...

The quaking aspen is one of the most recognized and cherished tree species in southern Idaho. These medium-sized deciduous trees are commonly 20 to 80 feet tall, and grow 3 ...

For example, the bark of young quaking aspen may be grayish-white but as the tree ages, the bark, especially around the base, becomes darker and furrowed and even a bit “warty.” ...

To carve an aspen tree — to take a blade to the trunk for the sake of your initials, for example — is to do harm. Harm to a being with a life expectancy much like our own: 100 years, if we ...