balsam poplar and cottonwood have all contributed to the noticeable seed crop. Quaking aspen is the most common tree in Northland forests. No news continues to be good news on the forest tent ...

Quaking aspen trees — they’re a “symbol of the Colorado ... a large clonal colony which has reproduced from a single seed and spread by root suckers,” the Colorado Native Plant Society ...

Quaking aspen and poplar were early ... (We often see this as a yellowish color on area lakes.) And trees are making seeds. Both silver and red maples were quick to flower and now are holding ...

DENVER — Something is killing the quaking aspen trees of the Rocky Mountain West ... Rather than spreading through seeds, aspens send out shoots, called suckers, from giant, interconnected ...

It is, of course, aspen putting on the dazzling displays. This is our celebrated tree of fall, the quaking aspen so named for those leaves that quake or flicker in the breeze, twinkle in the sun ...

It's one of the largest life forms on the planet: a quaking aspen so colossal ... What started as one seed now spans 80 football fields and weighs some 6,000 tons. "They look like tree trunks ...

Unlike other deciduous trees that lose their leaves in fall and become dormant, quaking aspen bark produces energy ... that split to release cottony seeds. Aspens also reproduce asexually by ...