On the shoulder of Kebler Pass, about seven miles west of Crested Butte, a giant lounges in the Colorado high country. The Kebler Pass aspen stand covers the equivalent of just over 100 football ...

To carve an aspen tree — to take a blade to the trunk for the sake of your initials, for example — is to do harm. Harm to a being with a life expectancy much like our own: 100 years, if we’re lucky.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Question: (1) Which remote sensing classification most successfully identify aspen using multitemporal Landsat 5 TM images and airborne lidar ...

While forests of pine and fir trees get a lot of attention, the more ubiquitous and colorful quaking aspen is a keystone species that is experiencing substantial increases in mortality and decreases ...

It is the season of envy in Colorado. The all-too-brief time of year when we admire our forests in their finest states — awash in gold. It is, of course, aspen putting on the dazzling displays. This ...

New research from Western Colorado University shows that the long-held conventional belief about aspen trees being resilient to wildfires is more than just an anecdotal assumption. Matt Harris, a ...