Learn how to identify the aspen tree in the forest, as well as facts about the tree's habitat, range, silviculture, and management.

An ice storm in late March damaged forests across a 12-county area in the northern part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.

The U.S. Forest Service, Colorado State Forest Service and organizations like Leave No Trace discourage people from carving into aspen trees because the bark serves a similar purpose as skin.

A forest of quaking aspen trees in Utah, called Pando, has been confirmed to be incredibly old. It is estimated to be between 16,000 and 80,000 years old. This makes Pando one of the oldest living ...

The Trump administration plans to rescind a nearly quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging on national forest lands.

This forest has an estimated 47,000 aspen trunks over 106 acres but — get this — is only a single “tree.” All the trunks share one root system! They are clones and genetically identical to ...

DENVER — Considering how quickly fires can turn forests to ash, it may come as a surprise that the U.S. Forest Service says fire is necessary for aspen trees to thrive.Of all the various ...

FLAGSTAFF — Beneath the scenic yellow and red leaves of soaring aspen trees in the Kachina Wilderness, forest ecologist Mike Stoddard is looking down. His concern isn’t the brilliant fall ...

Twelve years after the Aspen Fire roared over the Catalina Mountains, once-blackened slopes are showing expanses of bright green new growth — a heartening sign that the forest is on the road to ...

Named for Colorado’s native aspen tree, Populus tremuloides, and designed by Chicago-based architecture firm Studio Gang, the much-anticipated hotel opened in October of 2024.

John Daley/CPR News A large swath of dead trees along Stewart Creek near the trail to San Luis Peak, one of Colorado's 14ers, in the San Luis Mountains. “So that adds to complexity about what ...

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 ...