To carve an aspen tree — to take a blade to the trunk for the sake of your initials, for example — is to do harm. Harm to a being with a life expectancy much like our own: 100 years, if we ...

It was the end of April, and we skinned up through an especially majestic stand of bright white-barked giant aspens. As we moved along I noticed that where the snow had receded near the aspen trunks, ...

A U.S. Forest Service trail crew cleared scores of burned tree trunks off two popular trails on Basalt Mountain earlier this month — opening areas in the heart of the Lake Christine Fire last summer.

A mother bear and two cubs that took up residence this week in a tree on an Aspen pedestrian mall were evicted when Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials tranquilized the mother and then two cubs. The ...

FLAGSTAFF — As flurries started to descend on the forest floor, a team of researchers examined a stand of sickly quaking aspen trees off U.S. Highway 180, just north of Flagstaff. To an ...

The dark scars on an aspen's trunk usually signal that a deer has been by for a snack. (Photo: Johnny Adolphson/Shutterstock) Because of the way aspen trees sprout up, they will probably be around ...

PAONIA, COLO. — From the hillsides of extinct volcanoes in Arizona to the jagged peaks of Idaho, aspen trees are falling by the tens of thousands, the latest example of how climate change is ...

Aspen scale forms in dense clusters on branches and trunks of aspen trees. If the insects circle the trunk of an aspen, it can die. Aspen trees in Billings have been hit hard by scale this summer ...

Black bears leave scratch marks with their sharp claws when they climb the trees to hide from incoming hikers. And of course, beavers take down entire tree trunks, leaving merely a stump where a large ...

There are pockets of Colorado aspen groves that bear so many scribbles and drawings that the trunks look like graffiti-covered bathroom stalls. While some are made by egotists, some marks have been ...

When I think of a "cheery" tree, I think of quaking aspens. Why cheery you might ask? While there are no leaves this time of year, find one in the spring and shake a branch… the leaves tremble ...

To carve an aspen tree — to take a blade to the trunk for the sake of your initials, for example — is to do harm. Harm to a being with a life expectancy much like our own: 100 years, if we ...