Aspen trees tend to have rough bark that ranges in color: greenish or yellowish, grey, white, or a mix. These trees are medium-sized, growing between 20 and 80 feet tall.

Aspen is home to about 12,000 trees, the majority of which are native trees: aspen 24%, narrowleaf cottonwood 27%, and spruce 17%. “At 8,000 feet, we are limited to what we can grow,” he said. “There ...

Have you ever paused beneath a towering oak or maple and wondered if that rough, gnarled bark is hiding secrets? What if I ...

A 2019 study concluded that trees are one of the most cost-effective ways to combat climate change. The researchers estimate a trillion trees are needed on Earth, in addition to the current 3 trillion ...

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 ...

Aspen trees reproduce not only by seed but also by extensive suckering. A grove of aspens in the mountains may have started as suckers off the roots of an original “mother” tree that arrived ...

Quaking aspen trees generally grow to a height of about 50 feet (15 m) with a spreading crown of 25 feet (7.6 m). Larger species known as "old growth aspen" that measure some 100 feet ...

ASPEN – More than 100 trees have died or are stressed along Highway 82 at the entrance to Aspen. A change in a multimillion-dollar project involving a water pump at the bottom of a pond at the golf ...

A helicopter has hauled more than 200 beetle-infested trees off Smuggler Mountain outside Aspen in a campaign to limit damage by the bug that has ruined millions of acres of Western forests. The ...

ASPEN – Hikers and bikers will have to deal with more wind-blown trees than usual blocking trails in the mountains around Aspen, Basalt and Carbondale this spring, a forest ranger said Wednesday.

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 ...