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 ...

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 ...

The floating cotton you saw is likely from aspen trees. Both quaking and bigtooth aspen have catkins that release seeds attached to cotton-like material that floats in the wind. This past spring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...