Please shed some light on this conundrum: my aspen trees have broken out with a bad case of acne. Well, not all of my aspens, ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed ...

I hear the terms used interchangeably. Answer: Popple (or poplar) are common names for aspen trees because their genus is populus, but many trees are in that genus. In Minnesota we have two native ...

Tree planters are hard at work this spring planting aspen seedlings in the Whitehorse South fuel break. The goal is to build ...

Throughout the mountains of the American West, carvings hidden on the trunks of aspen trees tell the stories of the ...

JT Thomas It's a relentlessly sunny day in the Rocky Mountains, and here at 9,000 feet, on the Grand Mesa in western Colorado, the aspen trees should be casting a shadow. But something is wrong in ...

Quaking aspen trees — they’re a “symbol of the Colorado high country,” according to Colorado Encyclopedia. The Populus tremuloides got the name “quaking aspen” because of the way its ...

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 ...

DENVER (KDVR) — 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 ...