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 ...

Nat Geo Explorer comes to Aspen with what it means to be truly human while living with wolves National Geographic Explorer ...

ASPEN – Mountain pine beetles have continued to attack lodgepole pines on Aspen’s Smuggler Mountain, but that doesn’t mean an experiment to slow the spread of the destructive insects can’t be deemed a ...

The bark of the aspen tree, it turns out, works pretty well as a canvas. Shepherds in the West made carvings in aspen trees, and they’re still to be found in Colorado, California and other states. The ...

(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 ...

The residents and visitors to this valley are lucky to enjoy a brilliant splattering of gold among the hillsides every autumn. These beautiful yellow, and sometimes orange and red, leaves are aspen ...

ASPEN – The U.S. Forest Service says fire crews will be removing dead and dying trees that have been infested by bark beetles near Aspen. Firefighters are set to begin cutting down the trees Monday ...

Aspen trees are one of the hallmarks of Colorado. Not only is a famous ski area and town named after the tree, but they are depicted in most of the beautiful fall pictures of the Rocky Mountains. The ...

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, ...