Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed ...

Throughout the mountains of the American West, carvings hidden on the trunks of aspen trees tell the stories of the sheepherders who made them as they passed through with their flocks. Most of the ...

Aspen is invariably the last tree to get its new leaves in spring, with them often not opening fully until early June in the ...

Look beyond Colorado’s shimmering yellow aspen trees for wonderful leaf-peeping ... the canopies on Monaco Street and Sixth Avenue. American elms that turn orange-yellow fill both areas.

Once the living aspen trees die, there may not be any new growth ... and their most southern range occurs in pockets on the Sky Islands of the American Southwest and Mexico. The trees diversify ...

Aspen trees are a really unique tree ... Fischer also said the shape of the structure is that of a Native American sky dome. “We decided to call it the gathering place. Where we all get together ...

T hroughout the mountains of the American West, carvings hidden on the trunks of aspen trees tell the stories of the sheepherders who made them as they passed through with their flocks. Most of ...

John Bieter receives funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. In 2023, the research group Lertxun-marrak/The Arborglyph Collaborative of which the author is part ...