The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

Starting in 2020, a team of scientists from University of California, Berkeley went on a scavenger hunt that lasted for years. Their mission: Bring back live aspen roots from across the country. With ...

I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, and there between the buildings and the cars was a gorgeous aspen tree ...

A heavily wooded yard showing part of a house and fence - Kristi Blokhin/Shutterstock For a new property owner, the thought of tall, majestic trees providing privacy and curb appeal is almost ...

What’s the largest tree you’ve ever seen? Maybe you have traveled to see the sequoias and redwoods in California. Maybe you found yourself in Sunderland, Massachusetts, and found the Buttonball tree, ...

It is the season of envy in Colorado. The all-too-brief time of year when we admire our forests in their finest states — awash in gold. It is, of course, aspen putting on the dazzling displays. This ...

DENVER — Something is killing the quaking aspen trees of the Rocky Mountain West. The slender, white-barked trees that paint the hills gold every autumn are dying, some scientists say, leaving bald ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FLAGSTAFF — As flurries started to descend on the forest floor, a team of researchers examined a stand of sickly quaking aspen ...

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 populus, ...