When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest near Madison, Wisconsin, in the early spring of 2021, we expected to finalize our plans for a research project on several species of insects ...

In early spring, an aspen clone will produce ... For many years, most western forest ecologists thought aspen reproduction from seeds was so rare as to warrant a publication of a single found ...

The U.S. Forest Service is preparing for a 900-acre prescribed burn on the south face of Red Mountain in Aspen as soon as mid ...

Sarah Tharp, a wiry biologist for the U.S. Forest Service, hoists a small ax, takes aim and delivers an angled blow to an aspen trunk, peeling off a sample of diseased bark. "Sometimes," she says ...

Hope springs eternal in March — even if you’re relegated to playing tennis indoors ahead of the spring break. The Aspen and Basalt girls tennis teams met on the indoor courts at Maroon Creek ...

Change is happening everywhere, but it’s how living things adapt that counts — a perfect example of this is aspen forests. A new decade-long study by University of Wisconsin researchers reveals how ...

It also shines in the autumn, when Colorado's famous aspen trees burn gold against the pine forests, or in the spring, when Rocky Mountain wildflowers pop up through the meadows, valleys ...

In October 2023 the Forest Service authorized the Aspen Project, which would have bulldozed habitat for bighorn sheep, deer, elk, bear and raptors, including imperiled northern goshawks. The forest ...