ASPEN, Colorado – The forests surrounding Aspen will appear more red and dead by the end of the summer because of the mountain pine beetle infestation, an expert with the White River National Forest ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series about an Aspen organization that plans to focus on the growing epidemic of pine beetles that are laying waste to Colorado’s forests. The first ...

But the appearance will be the least of Aspen’s worries. “Even with the optimistic expectation of moderate mountain pine beetle mortality, the real forest health issue in the Hunter Creek ...

The road is open late spring through fall -- early is best for wildflowers, midsummer to escape the heat, or fall for the spectacular changing of the aspen leaves. To get to the Pine Forest Range ...

ASPEN – Small pockets of the national forest around Aspen were hit hard by bark beetles in 2010 but Pitkin County ... The infestation has spread to about 4 million acres covered in lodgepole pine, ...

DENVER — The iconic pine and aspen forests of the Rocky Mountains are dying off at an alarming rate thanks to conditions exacerbated by climate change — drought, insect infestations and ...

ASPEN ” Not enough is known about the mountain pine beetle infestation of Colorado’s forests, and similar infestations in other forests around the world, to say for sure whether the phenomenon will ...

A little after noon on Sunday 26 June 2011, strong winds toppled an aspen tree onto a power ... it could transform much of the ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forest into shrub land.

It’s anything but. Just north of the Black Rock Desert, Pine Forest offers a diverse landscape of rolling slopes of sagebrush, dense stands of aspen and otherworldly clusters of rock formations.

“That blue stain, it will be a relic at some point,” said Sitton, who bought the Aspen Wall Wood mill in 2016. The march of mountain pine beetles through Colorado’s forests changed the compo ...

Hoping to see a different kind of vegetation rise from a former pine forest in town, the environmental collaboration group The Nature Conservancy visited Breckenridge on Sept. 30 with 1,200 aspen ...