On mature aspen trees, the tiny mice teeth chew through a partial depth of the bark, leaving the bulk of the tree’s bark intact, enabling it to continue nourishing the tree. Over time, scars on aspen ...

Stand before a fall display of quaking aspens in hushed bewilderment and you want to know them better. Approach an aspen trunk and you don’t know whether to stroke its ivory skin in reverence or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aspen’s history is a dense saga – a multiple-plot short story that can bewilder the reader trying to follow all of the action. Its human players have been and still tend toward the colorful, creative ...

And of course, beavers take down entire tree trunks, leaving merely a stump where a large aspen once stood. All of these animals, and many more, rely on the aspen for food and habitat during 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Artist Scott Filipiak juxtaposes his fine art talent with his graphic design background to create The Barcode Series. Aspen tress become barcodes with hidden symbols and meaning.

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 ...