There is a low-key battle with bark beetles underway on the flanks of Aspen Mountain. Colorado State Forest Service workers marched down steep slopes two weeks ago, stapling thousands of pheromone ...

(CBS4) --If you like viewing aspen trees as they make Colorado colorful in the fall, we have good news. But if you like hillside forests of spruce and pine...this may be hard to read. Research from ...

Driving away from the take-out window – a fish fillet sandwich beside me – I thought about gnawing tree bark. I contemplated being lost in the wilderness, chewing like a ravenous beaver on the cambium ...

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 populus, ...

This week’s trail challenge is to explore a local trail (or your backyard aspen grove) and search for signs of recent “barking” — the stripping of an aspen’s bark by elk, deer, or moose for food. Take ...

As Colorado’s bark beetle infestations have faded, ideas have changed about the insects’ impacts on mountain ecology and the prospects for wildfires in beetle-afflicted areas. A current study of ...

A Denver-based developer used Earth Day to announce that a new hotel downtown will be “carbon positive.” The developer will account for and offset the carbon emissions from the materials used, the ...

The latest assessment of forest health in Colorado shows the Aspen area is experiencing a steady spread of infestation from Douglas fir beetles, but Pitkin County overall is faring much better than ...

After a day of hiking the Mill Castle Trail in the West Elk Mountains I had returned to the trailhead, tired but exhilarated by my immersion in fall in the West Elk Wilderness. I had been looking at ...