Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The aspen forest where our team conducted our recent study. Mark R. Zierden When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest ...

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 foliage but ...

Two seasons of beaver censuses will help direct riparian area restoration, with Thompson Creek and Fourmile Creek highlighted as high-potential sites. Pitkin County Healthy Rivers and Streams ...

PELLSTON, Mich. (AP) -- Chain saws scream in a northern Michigan forest, but it's not the familiar sound of lumberjacks. This time the tree killers are environmental researchers. They hope that years ...

What looks like barren land can change rapidly with the return of a single species. The aspen tree grows quickly, spreads through its root system, and supports entire ecosystems around it. From ...

Learn more about why the story of how wolves saved Yellowstone National Park’s aspens is more complicated — and more ...

While evergreen trees are a staple of Christmas, they mean so much more to Aspen and the surrounding White River National Forest than holiday decoration. According to Aspen City Forester Heather Gale, ...

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, ...

The record low snowpack isn’t just impacting recreation on the mountain — it’s presenting a real risk to Aspen’s tree populations. In mountain towns, snowpack historically buffers the ecosystem, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FLAGSTAFF — Beneath the scenic yellow and red leaves of soaring aspen trees in the Kachina Wilderness, forest ecologist Mike ...