The quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is one of Colorado’s most iconic trees and maybe its most dramatic. With smooth white ...

Matt Harris, a forest fire researcher at Western and lead-author of the study, says that two decades of data on fires across ...

Known as the Pando aspen grove, it is actually a single massive root system with around 47,000 genetically identical stems that create a grove of trees that keep the root system going.

Pando stretches 0.67 miles by 0.45 miles at its widest points. The whole organism weighs about 13 million pounds, making it ...

This spreading network of natural habitat formed through asexual reproduction revealed genetic data that proved it to be the ...

A view of fall colors at Kebler Pass, which is consider the largest aspen grove in the U.S. Polis points out that Utah’s Pando Aspen Grove is 106 acres and that “Colorado’s famed Kebler Pass ...

Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday pooh-poohed claims that Australia now has the world's largest plant after the discovery of a self-cloning seagrass off the coast of the continent that has ...

Science What Conservation Coalitions Have Learned from an Aspen Tree A “rag-tag” group of stakeholders garnered protections this year for a vast aspen grove on Colorado’s Kebler Pass.

A new study from Colorado State University, Western Colorado University and the U.S. Forest Service found evidence that ...

Tent caterpillars have moved into a grove of aspen trees near the Needles area west of U.S. Highway 550. The leaves on acres of trees have been eaten away by the insects and their young.