As temperatures rise, local officials warn residents about the Western Pine Bark Beetle, a native insect that affects ...

Downtown hotel designed to look like aspen bark to be “carbon positive,” developer says Eco announcement about the Populus, which will be next to Civic Center park, made on Earth Day ...

An opening in the bark is an opening for fungi. There the fungi might make a home while the aspen skin does what human skin does in defense: the bark closes itself.

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

Take a selfie Tyler Reynolds, a naturalist at The Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulf, shows off chalky Aspen bark on his hands during a fall photography hike. (Brittany Anas, Special to The Denver Post) ...

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 ...

We all want to know more about those spectacular leaves, but let’s focus a moment on aspen bark. Off-white, light gray, or even greenish in color, aspen bark has a superpower — it conducts ...

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 ...

Aspen bark gleams white and feels like suede. (Glenn Cushman - Courtesy photo) Berries were ripening, and we nibbled on rose hips and golden currants.

Adam McCurdy, forest and climate director for Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, said the results of the Douglas fir bark beetle infestation are evident in several highly visible portions of ...

These growths were usually covered with unbroken aspen bark. But some were leaking dark fluid that stained the bark. The dark fluid is the exudate from a Cytospora canker, a common fungus.

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.