This helps the city be less susceptible to large loss of trees from insects or viruses. Trees in Aspen provide a host of benefits such as pollution removal, stormwater runoff prevention, and reducing ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, a remarkable organism known as Pando stands as the largest living organism on Earth by mass ...

The insects construct their silken tents on aspen tree branches and feed on the leaves. The eating frenzy leaves large swaths of aspen trees bare of foliage. If the caterpillars don’t show up ...

This stock image shows aspen trees in the Rocky Mountains ... However, these are large-scale and expensive approaches. Pando's decline will also have ripple effects on the local ecology in ...

“A stand of aspen trees is actually one giant organism, a large clonal colony which has reproduced from a single seed and spread by root suckers,” the Colorado Native Plant Society website sai ...

Aspen grow in "clones," or groups of genetically identical trunks. Some clones are thousands of years old, although individual trees live 150 years at most. One especially large stand in Utah ...

“I like to call it our ‘best worst tree,’” said Aspen’s city forester, David Coon. While Coon said cottonwoods are Aspen’s “best large-stature shade tree,” they exceed the commonly ...

Some aspen trees have grayish-white bark when they are ... They’re 3-6 inches long with 30-34 large, saw-like teeth around the edge. Question: We had a lot of cotton-like material floating ...

FLAGSTAFF — Beneath the scenic yellow and red leaves of soaring aspen trees in ... aspens are stimulated by large surface level disturbances, like wildfires. Despite the trees' resilience ...