I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, and there between the buildings and the cars was a gorgeous aspen tree ...

Bill has been working on Phase 3 of our Japanese garden. I bought an array of Japanese maples, a loblolly pine (a reminder of Mississippi), an unusual pine and a hemlock. I noticed a special tree on ...

Nestled in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, Aspen, Colorado is a winter wonderland during the Christmas season, where chilly mountain air meets the cozy glow of holiday cheer. From powdery slopes and ...

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 ...

After decades of decline, the aspen forests of northern Yellowstone are finally making a comeback, and believe it or not, it’s all thanks to the return of certain carnivores. A new long-term study has ...

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 ...

Throughout the mountains of the American West, carvings hidden on the trunks of aspen trees tell the stories of the sheepherders who made them as they passed through with their flocks. Most of the men ...