Invasive caterpillars can make aspen forests more toxic for native insects—ecologists explain how
is the most widespread tree species in North America. As a keystone species, aspen provides food and shelter for many forest ...
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Climate Breakdown: Losing Our Aspen Forests in the West
Aspen forests in the Intermountain West support levels ... are attacking the overstory trees, weakening and killing them. ” ...
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International Day of Forests arrives amid concerns over Trump's sweeping logging agenda
The world celebrates International Day of Forests on Friday, but President Trump aims to expand American logging and roll ...
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Study: Willow, aspen trees busy with beavers
The Forest Service employees surveyed 296 sites across 353,016 acres of Aspen-Sopris Ranger District land over 77 field days. They randomly selected survey sites and found 138 dams and 16 lodges ...
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Is Colorado cutting down too many trees to fight wildfires? These environmentalists think so
One unseasonably warm morning in December, Democratic state Rep. Tammy Story stood on the edge of a trail winding through the ...
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Naturalist Nights: the case for burning
Clare Boerigter, a science writer specializing in wildland fire, and Jonathan Coop, a forest ecologist with Western Colorado ...
St George News14d
Can Pando survive? PBS documentary explores unique nature, fate of world's largest tree
Fishlake National Forest's Pando, touted as the world's largest tree, is at the center of a new online documentary, as ...
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U.S. Forest Service Scraps Logging Project in Utah’s Ashley National Forest
SALT LAKE CITY— In response to a lawsuit by conservation groups, the U.S. Forest Service pulled its authorization of logging within 147,000 acres of sensitive roadless habitat in Utah’s Ashley ...