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Colorado firm Studio B Architecture + Interiors has completed The Perch, which involved renovating a 1960s house for the firm ...
To carve an aspen tree — to take a blade to the trunk for the sake of your initials, for example — is to do harm. Harm to a being with a life expectancy much like our own: 100 years, if we ...
CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. — Aspen trees are the celebrities of a Colorado fall day. Think about it. People line the roads to take pictures with them. Instagram feeds from all over the state feature ...
Aspen is home to about 12,000 trees, the majority of which are native trees: aspen 24%, narrowleaf cottonwood 27%, and spruce 17%. “At 8,000 feet, we are limited to what we can grow,” he said. “There ...
The Maroon Bells are the centerpiece of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area, a vast expanse of protected wilderness.
Pando is an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) with 47,000 genetically identical stems, or tree trunks, connected to a vast underground root system. Each stem is a clone of the one ...
When I think of a "cheery" tree, I think of quaking aspens. Why cheery you might ask? While there are no leaves this time of year, find one in the spring and shake a branch… the leaves tremble ...
Culture Aspen Archives Showcases Tree Carvings Left by Sheepherders in Colorado’s High Country. On display at DU’s Davis Gallery through October 20, the exhibit tells stories of the migrant workers ...
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 stock image shows aspen trees in the Rocky Mountains. Pando, an aspen forest filled with genetically identical trees, is the worlds largest organism due to a huge shared root system.
The increase in tree "fluff" is likely a stress response from poplars, aspen and willows reacting to the dry conditions from ...