Conservationists have rescued a rare moss from a tree after it was blown down in a storm. Aspen bristle-moss has only been ...

It’s not just the lodgepole pines that are dying in the Colorado mountains. Thirteen percent of aspen trees in the state are now affected by Sudden Aspen Decline, which is caused by disease and ...

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 ...

Riders during Stage 1 of the Colorado Classic in Steamboat Springs in 2019. Aspen trees are the mostly widely distributed native tree species in North America, found throughout many northern U.S.

Prescribed burns continued Thursday near Big Sky as part of the U.S. Forest Service's Aspen Restoration projects. In total 90 acres will be burned at a site in Durnam Meadow, which was lit on Tuesday.

In Vail, when lodgepole pines were cut to create a wildfire buffer zone between neighborhoods and the forest, several kinds of trees and plants repopulated the area in the years that followed. In ...

Yellow Aspen leaves hang on to a tree limb during the autumn, near Buena Vista, Colorado. Brilliant red and yellow aspen trees have become emblematic of Colorado’s fall foliage. But in recent years, ...

Gardening season is underway, and you may have questions. For answers, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty ...