Harvesting could start this week and continue for the next five years at Chippewa Hills Pathway near Alpena, Mich.

Forty percent of the accumulated 28.7 million cords of standing dead trees is made up of green ash, quaking aspen, white ash, balsam fir and paper birch.

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The return of wolves and other predators to Yellowstone has reduced elk browsing, allowing aspen trees to grow back for the first time in decades.

The DNR said Michigan residents across the state may start to notice the loss of leaves on oak, aspen and maple trees again this year.

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