The reintroduction of large carnivores has initiated a recovery process that had been shut down for decades,” says Painter in ...

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 ...

Closer to home, aspen trees have a layer of green bark underlying the external whitish bark. Even in winter, when the leaves have dropped, the bark can use the available daylight to make sugars ...

Forest bathing dates back to ancient Japanese Shinto and Buddhist beliefs that spirits inhabit natural elements, which can ...

Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young ...

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.” ...

This Saturday, the city will celebrate Aspen Arbor Day at Paepcke Park from 9 a.m.-noon — the 31st year of these celebrations since being designated a Tree City USA city. Festivities will include ...

“Aspen are a very vulnerable species to bacterial infections as well as fungal infections,” she said. Elk eat aspen bark and scrape it off with their teeth, which can damage the tree.

I’m pretty sure this was a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) or as many of us New Englanders know them, a quaking poplar. When I think of a "cheery" tree, I think of quaking aspens.

Banner image: A forest in the San Juan range of the Rocky Mountains, with dead Engelmann spruce trees alongside live aspen trees. (Credit: Robert Andrus) Bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire alone are ...

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 ...