Aspen trees are found mainly in Northeastern United States, the Lake States, northward into Canada, and in the Rockies from New Mexico north into Alberta. In fact, aspen is the most widespread ...

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 ...

The vast majority of Alberta’s tree canopy lacks the rosy foliage of Ontario’s oak and maple trees. While stunning in their own right, the canopies of the aspen, elm and ash trees common to ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Considering how quickly fires can turn forests to ash, it may come as a surprise that the U.S. Forest Service says fire is necessary for aspen trees to thrive. Of all the various ...

Starting in the late 1800's, sheepherders, many of from the Basque region of Northern Spain, carved basic messages or elaborate images into the bark of aspen trees in this area. Now the trees are ...

FLAGSTAFF — Beneath the scenic yellow and red leaves of soaring aspen trees in the Kachina Wilderness, forest ecologist Mike Stoddard is looking down. His concern isn’t the brilliant fall ...

John Bieter receives funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. In 2023, the research group Lertxun-marrak/The Arborglyph Collaborative of which the author is part ...

A quaking aspen tree, Pando aspen, in Fishlake National Forest, Utah. The trees are part of a single organism, called a clonal body. Photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, National Geographic ...