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.

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

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was looking at and photographing aspen in the West Elk Wilderness, but the aspen at the trailhead had conspicuous growths that I had not previously noticed. Skip to content. All Sections.

Not aspens though! If you look at the thin bark of an aspen tree you will notice shades of tan and green, a hidden message for those that are observant enough to notice. Aspens have the magical ...

Just south of Pellston on US-31, the early evening light that drenches silver aspen bark and roadside wildflowers is interrupted by an enormous orange arrow advertising “Dam Site Inn, ...

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.