Learn how to identify the aspen tree in the forest, as well as facts about the tree's habitat, range, silviculture, and management.

Question: What’s the difference between a popple tree and an aspen? I hear the terms used interchangeably. Answer: Popple (or poplar) are common names for aspen trees because their genus is ...

Quaking aspen trees — they’re a “symbol of the Colorado high country,” according to Colorado Encyclopedia. The Populus tremuloides got the name “quaking aspen” because of the way its ...

Young aspens often don't survive because of factors such as grazing elk, according to a study by Northern Arizona University researchers.

The increase in tree "fluff" is likely a stress response from poplars, aspen and willows reacting to the dry conditions from ...

Populus, the country's first carbon positive hotel, will open in Denver this summer with rooms inspired by aspen trees.

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 ...

Though the aspen trees need devastation like fire to thrive, they do not burn easily. In fact, aspen wood is often used for matches because it is not as flammable as other kinds of wood, according ...

This is our celebrated tree of fall, the quaking aspen so named for those leaves that flicker in the breeze, twinkle in the sun and stir our souls. Maybe you didn't know that about the name ...

Please shed some light on this conundrum: my aspen trees have broken out with a bad case of acne. Well, not all of my aspens, just a few. And not all of their branches, just here and there. Come ...

What changes colors, shakes, and covers five million acres of Colorado? Quaking aspen trees.