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 ...

Carving into aspen tree bark is like cutting skin. Aspen bark is thin like paper and can be easily stripped or carved. The U.S. Forest Service, Colorado State Forest Service and organizations like ...

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 ... The outbreak of Douglas fir ...

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 ...

The quaking aspen is one of the most recognized and cherished tree species in southern Idaho. These medium-sized deciduous trees are commonly 20 to 80 feet tall, and grow 3 ...

Books on survival make a point of including the nutritious value of an aspen’s cambium layer, that thin strip of living tissue between the heartwood and outer bark of a tree. Beavers love it.

When I think of a "cheery" tree, I think of quaking aspens. Why cheery you might ask? While there are no leaves this time of year, find one in the spring and shake a branch… the leaves tremble ...

Other local wildlife depends on aspen, as well, and will leave their own unique marks on the groves. In search of insects, woodpeckers peck away at aspen bark, leaving small, circular scars speckling ...

The center of a tree or shrub stem (from roots to trunk, branches, and twigs) is woody, composed of xylem cells that conduct water from the roots to the upper parts of the tree. That woody section ...

How to preserve aspen leaves. 1. Gather leaves on a sunny day, after the dew has dried. Choose leaves with no blemishes. 2. Press your leaves shortly after gathering, before they dry out.