For 30 years, Aspen has held the title of Tree City USA, one granted by the Arbor Day Foundation to communities that meet four requirements: The city must maintain a tree board or department, meaning ...

This summer has been hot. Too hot. We are in a stage 2 drought in the Roaring Fork Valley, in a drought pattern that stretches back 20 years. When I started to research what the impact of the drought ...

New research from Western Colorado University shows that the long-held conventional belief about aspen trees being resilient to wildfires is more than just an anecdotal assumption. Matt Harris, a ...

Starting in 2020, a team of scientists from University of California, Berkeley went on a scavenger hunt that lasted for years. Their mission: Bring back live aspen roots from across the country. With ...

Question: What’s the difference between a popple tree and an aspen? I hear the terms used interchangeably. Answer: Popple (or poplar) are common names for aspen trees because their genus is populus, ...

An ecological milestone has been unveiled at Yellowstone National Park following the finding of a new generation of overstory aspen trees for the first time in 80 years. This hopeful rebalance of the ...

After decades of decline, the aspen forests of northern Yellowstone are finally making a comeback, and believe it or not, it’s all thanks to the return of certain carnivores. A new long-term study has ...