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, 2022. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen ...

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 ...

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.” ...