Quaking or trembling aspen is a short-lived (50 years), fast-growing, medium-sized tree. It seldom exceeds 60 feet in height and 20 inches in diameter. Although it has some good ornamental ...

Answer: Aspens are a unique tree. When we see beautiful groves of them growing wild in the mountains, we seldom look closely to observe the insects and diseases which are right there with them. They ...

We live in a neighborhood just north of F½ and 25 roads with several older aspen trees (15–18 years old) in the neighborhood. We have a large, full aspen tree that has lots of brown leaves on it next ...

When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest near Madison, Wisconsin, in the early spring of 2021, we expected to finalize our plans for a research project on several species of insects that ...

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 untrained eye, ...

A symbol of the Western mountains, the Aspen tree, is rapidly disappearing from the landscape at a rate not previously seen. The drop-off is unnerving in areas such as northern Arizona, where ...

After decades of decline, the aspen forests of northern Yellowstone are finally making a comeback, and believe it or not, it’s all thanks to the return of certain carnivores. A new long-term study has ...

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’re lucky.