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 ...

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

May 30—As we exit May, we can look out on a green foliated forest. The trees that began the month bare are now nearly complete in wearing their leafy attire. It began with the small shrubs of ...

Aspen, also known as aspen poplar, poplar (especially outside North America), popple, trembling aspen, bigtooth aspen, quaky and a dozen other local names, is a wonderful wood for many use.

When I think of a "cheery" tree, I think of quaking aspens. Why cheery you might ask? While there are no leaves this time of year, find one in the spring and shake a branch… the leaves tremble ...

Pando is an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) with 47,000 genetically identical stems, or tree trunks, connected to a vast underground root system. Each stem is a clone of the one ...

This enables the tree to absorb a small amount of the sun’s energy through photosynthesis in its trunk and branches – a feat which other native trees are incapable of.

Bison bulls will trample small aspen or rake their horns on the trees, stunting their growth or killing them.

In this way, a single Panda aspen can be easily mistaken for a small forest of nearly identical looking trees. Each of the trees (known officially as stems) are clones of the original tree—all ...

Crystal To walked through a barren, burnt landscape — over ash, dirt and the soot-black remains of small charred stumps. She slammed a small shovel into the ground, wiggled it back and forth to ...

Science What Conservation Coalitions Have Learned from an Aspen Tree A “rag-tag” group of stakeholders garnered protections this year for a vast aspen grove on Colorado’s Kebler Pass.

Populus, the country's first carbon positive hotel, will open in Denver this summer with rooms inspired by aspen trees.