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 ...

ASPEN – Small pockets of the national forest around Aspen were hit hard by bark beetles ... The infestation has spread to about 4 million acres covered in lodgepole pine, five-needle pine and ...

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 ...

“It seems certain we’ll have aspen somewhere in the landscape far into the future,” Worrall concluded. The same cannot be said for white pine, which dominate the forests in Montana and parts of ...

For The Forest, which was founded in 2008 by former Aspen mayor John Bennett, first became known for logging mountain pine beetle-infested trees on Smuggler Mountain and for its restoration work ...

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 ...

Contract loggers periodically harvest forests of aspen and jack pine, which are short-living, fast-growing trees that thrive on bare land and after about 40 or 50 years can be clear-cut to make ...

“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 Wednesday with 1,200 aspen ...

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 ...

you can see robust stands of aspens growing in areas which were formerly lodgepole pine forests, devastated by bark beetle outbreaks. But without disturbances, aspen forests are often replaced by ...

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 ...