This summer marks 10 years since riparian restoration project with the Colorado Natural Heritage Program began on John Powers’ ranch on Rifle Creek ...

A little bit over a four-hour drive from Seattle beyond the Cascades along Interstate 90, the refuge has become a perfect ...

The Memorial Day weekend may have marked the unofficial start to summer, but avalanches continue to pose a danger to backcountry travelers in Colorado. Over the holiday weekend, a backcountry skier ...

The aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed tree species in North America, ranging from Alaska to Newfoundland and down the Rocky Mountains to Mexico. Utah and Colorado ...

JT Thomas It's a relentlessly sunny day in the Rocky Mountains, and here at 9,000 feet, on the Grand Mesa in western Colorado, the aspen trees should be casting a shadow. But something is wrong in ...

FLAGSTAFF — Beneath the scenic yellow and red leaves of soaring aspen trees in the Kachina Wilderness, forest ecologist Mike Stoddard is looking down. His concern isn’t the brilliant fall ...

"So in some sense, an Aspen is an Aspen. Uh, it's, uh, a really widely distributed species. And so in fact, the most widely distributed species of tree in North America, and it grows from Alaska all ...

Question: What’s the difference between a popple tree and an aspen? I hear the terms used interchangeably. Answer: Popple (or poplar) are common names for aspen trees because their genus is ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Considering how quickly fires can turn forests to ash, it may come as a surprise that the U.S. Forest Service says fire is necessary for aspen trees to thrive. Of all the various ...

Quaking aspen trees — they’re a “symbol of the Colorado high country,” according to Colorado Encyclopedia. The Populus tremuloides got the name “quaking aspen” because of the way its ...

Invasive spongy moths are defoliating aspen trees and making their leaves regrow with high levels of toxins, harming a native insect, according to recent research from the University of ...