Aspen forests help slow the spread of wildfires and could serve as fire breaks in Colorado and other southwestern states, according to a peer-reviewed study by Western Colorado University researchers.

Hundreds of trees down as storms roar across Iowa by Dar Danielson | Jul 29, 2025 Tree damage in Sioux County. (KSOU photo) ...

Reintroduced Wolves Are Helping Baby Aspen Trees Flourish in Northern Yellowstone for the First Time in 80 Years, Study Suggests The apex predators, restored to the park in 1995, appear to be ...

The researchers found that even modest increases in aspen cover dramatically reduced the rate at which fires spread. Their findings suggest that aspen forests can act as natural firebreaks, which ...

Colorado researchers examine aspen trees as a mitigating factor in wildfire spread.

Visual and performing arts are flourishing in the upper Roaring Fork Valley this summer. Anderson Ranch Arts Center kicked off the art festival ...

July 24, 2025: Fighting backlash, Denver Pride sends powerful message; Aspen trees as wildfire breaks By Ryan Warner July 24, 2025 Listen Now ...

The restoration of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park has helped revive an aspen tree population unique to the region, a new study has found. Quaking aspen, one of the few deciduous tree ...

Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young trees, and it is finally paying off for quaking aspen.

The dearth of aspen trees had wide-ranging knock-on effects across the ecosystem, the researchers added, citing effects on species such as beavers and cavity-nesting birds. But the situation began ...

In 2020-2021, the researchers examined 87 randomly selected, previously sampled aspen “stands,” or groups of genetically identical trees interconnected by a shared root network.

The city of Aspen has identified an increase in small, sap-sucking insects this summer compared to previous years, but the level of concern is still low. Aphids, as referred to by the scientific ...