Federal crews are using prescribed burns near Aspen to reduce wildfire risk and improve wildlife habitat. But staffing cuts ...

Sarah Tharp, a wiry biologist for the U.S. Forest Service, hoists a small ax, takes aim and delivers an angled blow to an aspen trunk, peeling off a sample of diseased bark. "Sometimes," she says ...

Grand Junction, recently joined fellow Democratic lawmakers in Colorado’s congressional delegation in a letter sent to U.S.

The U.S. Forest Service is preparing for a 900-acre prescribed burn on the south face of Red Mountain in Aspen as soon as mid-April, depending on weather and fuel conditions. Known as the Sunnyside ...

Recent U.S. Forest Service staffing cuts have impacted mountain communities interfacing with public lands across the country ...

More information: Michael T. Stoddard et al, Multi-decadal aspen dynamics show recruitment bottleneck across complex mountain community, Forest Ecology and Management (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco ...

Change is happening everywhere, but it’s how living things adapt that counts — a perfect example of this is aspen forests. A new decade-long study by University of Wisconsin researchers reveals how ...

This process reveals the golds, yellows and reds allowing aspen to really show their stuff until their leaves drop (Vogel 1993). For many years, most western forest ecologists thought aspen ...

FLAGSTAFF — Beneath the scenic yellow and red leaves of soaring aspen trees in the Kachina Wilderness, forest ecologist Mike Stoddard is looking down. His concern isn’t the brilliant fall ...

In October 2023 the Forest Service authorized the Aspen Project, which would have bulldozed habitat for bighorn sheep, deer, elk, bear and raptors, including imperiled northern goshawks. The forest ...

This week, we introduce the quaking aspen or populus tremuloides. The quaking aspen, also known as the trembling aspen, is adaptable to a variety of soils, ranging from moist loamy sands and clay, but ...