When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest near Madison, Wisconsin, in the early spring of 2021, we expected to finalize our plans for a research project on several species of insects ...

Aspen forests in the Intermountain West support levels of biodiversity only exceeded by riparian (stream) communities. In this time of Climate Breakdown, ...

Pando, an aspen forest filled with genetically identical trees, is the worlds largest organism due to a huge shared root system. This stock image shows aspen trees in the Rocky Mountains.

Just as new research shows that aspen forests are a fountain of biodiversity, Aspen’s namesake trees in the Roaring Fork River watershed are battling warming temperatures, drier conditions, climate ...

Surveys of two national forests in Arizona showed that from 2000 to 2007, lower-elevation areas lost 90 percent of their aspen. Aspen grow in "clones," or groups of genetically identical trunks.

Behold the Pando aspen clone, a sprawling carpet of vibrant green-yellow quaking aspens occupying more than 100 acres outside the Fishlake National Forest in Utah. The “Trembling Giant,” as it ...

Aspen stands also help regenerate forests after fire. Within the aspen canopy, St. Clair has shown how aspen facilitates other species. In one instance, conifer trees grow at the base of aspen but ...

For 106 acres on the southwest bank of Fish Lake in Sevier County, a single root system unites this forest. Pando is the biggest aspen “clone” ever identified, the single most massive living ...

A proposed aspen management project for White River National Forest aims to treat up to 20,000 acres of aspen per decade through a mix of prescribed burning and timber harvesting. About 375,000 acres ...

FLAGSTAFF — As flurries started to descend on the forest floor, a team of researchers examined a stand of sickly quaking aspen trees off U.S. Highway 180, just north of Flagstaff.