It's one of the largest life forms on the planet: a quaking aspen so colossal it has a name — Pando, which is Latin for "I spread." You might mistake Pando for a swath of forest of thousands of ...

Q: I want to plant three quaking aspen trees on each side of my rather long, asphalt driveway. I was doing some reading about them and learned that they have a very vigorous root system and can ...

The heartwood of quaking aspen was once considered to be worthless by loggers. The tree even had the nickname "weed tree" in some parts of the mountains. But the modern lumbering industry now sees ...

A treasure trove of gold In October, the quaking aspen groves in June Lake, California, glow with vivid hues of yellow — and nothing sets off these colors like a crisp, clear autumn day.

It lives in Fishlake National Forest, and is a quaking aspen. Sort of. Because we live on the macro scale, we’re used to thinking of living being as discrete entities. A person is a person ...

Populus tremuloides, the quaking aspen of the North American continent, stands as one of the most easily recognized, most beautiful and most admired of all tree species. In order to help ...

Behold the Pando aspen clone, a sprawling carpet of vibrant green-yellow quaking aspens occupying more than 100 acres outside the Fishlake National Forest in Utah. The “Trembling Giant,” as it ...

Plains and narrowleaf cottonwoods illuminate creeks and rivers with golden light. But most fans of fall colors drive and hike to see quaking aspen. This year, aspen’s colors did not occur at the same ...

This week, we introduce the quaking aspen or populus tremuloides. The quaking aspen, also known as the trembling aspen, is adaptable to a variety of soils, ranging from moist loamy sands and clay, but ...

THE TREMBLING or quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) has the widest geographical distribution of any tree in North America. This tree is found throughout Canada, Alaska and most of the United ...

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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 ...