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

A proposal to try to revive aspen stands across 375,000 acres of the White River National Forest has drawn criticism from environmentalists, endorsements from some local governments and concerns from ...

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, ... Aspen aren't the only trees in trouble in the Rockies.

Aspen’s namesake tree, the quaking aspen, would take a drastic hit in a warming world, Forest Forecasts predicted. In the worst-case scenario, there would be an 82 percent reduction in quaking aspen ...

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

Scientists Remove Thousands Of Aspen Trees To Glimpse Forest's Future. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 05 / 080523095759.htm ...

This stock image shows aspen trees in the Rocky Mountains. Pando, an aspen forest filled with genetically identical trees, is the worlds largest organism due to a huge shared root system.

The White River National Forest is asking for feedback by April 20 on a proposed management project that aims to use prescribed burning and tree harvesting to gradually breathe new life into aspen ...

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 ...

BRECKENRIDGE — In Vail, when lodgepole pines were cut to create a wildfire buffer zone between neighborhoods and the forest, several kinds of trees and plants repopulated the area in the years ...

The White River National Forest wants to undertake projects to improve forest health on 375,000 acres of aspen tree stands over the next several decades. The proposal has created a flap with ...

The U.S. Forest Service wants to use prescribes fires and timber harvests to improve the health in areas where aspen forests are in decline. The agency said aspen trees have a strong presence on about ...