Yes, you can eat fresh aspen bark, but it's not recommended. Here are three options you might find delicious in the outdoors.

As such, the aspen’s cambium, or thin inner layer of bark, is particularly nutritious. It may not be a fan favorite for these species and is considered a starvation food, however, in these late winter ...

Aspen bark is not like the bark of a pine tree or Douglas fir or any other conifer. These white trunks don’t have that protective, rough shield.

You can also rub some chalky aspen bark on your hands and clap to create a cloud, which looks great in slow motion, Davenport said, or toss up some leaves in front of you and let them cascade down.

The Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive species of bark beetle that was discovered in Colorado in 2013 and has been expanding through the state, has the potential to damage the Colorado landscape. And ...

Off-white, light gray, or even greenish in color, aspen bark has a superpower — it conducts photosynthesis. Unlike other deciduous trees that lose their leaves in fall and become dormant, ...

What caught my eye was the bark- it was clearly green almost luminous against the swirling snow and gray mountains. I’m pretty sure this was a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) or as many of ...

You'll spot them in an iconic Colorado town with front-row views of the mountains, throughout most of New England, and even ...

The aspen is a keystone Western tree species known for its vivid fall foliage and its smooth white bark, which is puckered by black scars where the trees have dropped branches they no longer need.