Aspen residents can recycle their Christmas trees for free through a city program in partnership with Aspen Tree Service. The initiative, which has been in place for over five years, continues to ...

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 ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Thousands head to the Colorado high country as fall transforms aspen trees to shimmering gold and fiery orange groves of color, but this year is different. While experts ...

It’s not just the lodgepole pines that are dying in the Colorado mountains. Thirteen percent of aspen trees in the state are now affected by Sudden Aspen Decline, which is caused by disease and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Considering how quickly ...

The city of Aspen manages 3,115 narrowleaf cottonwood trees — roughly 27% of Aspen’s “urban forest.” Cottonwoods provide the leafy backdrop to Rio Grande Park, shade the gables of West End Victorian ...

Colorado State Forest Service entomologist Dan West says the first reports of yellowing aspen leaves started in mid-August. By late last week, as sightings of possible fall foliage continued across ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Aspens are the prime tree to ...

Question: What’s the difference between a popple tree and an aspen? I hear the terms used interchangeably. Answer: Popple (or poplar) are common names for aspen trees because their genus is populus, ...