James and Cindy Rushing set up their camper along the Guadalupe River, their family says the couple is among the missing in ...

And of course, there’s the dead-zone slash of scorched earth and naked tree trunks that now mars Ruidoso’s trademark view of Sierra Blanca, rising from what used to be unblemished forest green ...

Mark Monroe grabbed an axe to remove a fallen tree from the trail. He was driving us to an area with damaged aspen trees. The amount of damage we saw throughout the drive was astounding.

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 ...

Nature-inspired name and design The name of the hotel, “Populus,” was inspired by Colorado’s widespread Aspen trees, also called “Populus tremuloides,” according to ArchPaper.

Twelve years after the Aspen Fire roared over the Catalina Mountains, once-blackened slopes are showing expanses of bright green new growth — a heartening sign that the forest is on the road to ...

For example, an aspen tree colony called Pando in Fishlake National Forest, Utah, is estimated to be over 16,000 years old as a whole, but individual trees in that colony rarely live more than 130 ...

Edward F. Gilman's 1991 paper, "Dispelling Misperceptions About Trees," said that "roots on one side of trees such as oaks and mahogany generally supply the same side of the tree" with water and ...

All tree leaves have an outer layer called the epidermis, which can also be used in the identification process. This leaf "skin" always has a waxy cover called the cuticle and varies in thickness.