Aspen forest is reclaiming the skyline of Yellowstone National Park after decades of controversy over efforts to return ...

Aspen forests help slow the spread of wildfires and could serve as fire breaks in Colorado and other southwestern states, ...

With a mix of gamble oak, aspen forests and sweeping vistas, the Stag Gulch trail to big park is a fall classic. The first miles of the hike feature shrub oak, which adds a firey hue to Colorado’s ...

Nearly 50 years later, the gold of autumn aspens graced the previously denuded flanks of Aspen Mountain. Yet newer settlers repeated the same old outrage for the trees. The latest growth spurt ...

The last day of summer and the first day of autumn fall within the same 24 hours every year; however, the first snow occurring on either of those days isn’t a given. Unless of course, you live here.

But aspen in other areas may also replace dying spruce and pine. “Things are happening pretty quickly and that's what's scary,” said Forest Service plant pathologist John Guyon.—Reuters 0 ...

“Two years ago, we celebrated the one millionth aspen tree being planted – from that 80 surviving aspen, we put one million back into the landscape,” he adds.

The research, to be published in Forest Ecology and Management, links ailing aspen to global climate change and concludes that up to 41 per cent of Western forests would be unable to support aspen ...