The apex predators, restored to the park in 1995, appear to be keeping the local population of plant-eating elk in check, ...

Some believe the tree goes back to a single seed that took root after the last ice age more than 10,000 years ago, and it has been sending out replacement suckers ever since.

Pando is the Latin word for "I spread," and it is also the name of a single aspen tree in the Fishlake National Forest in Utah with over 47,000 stems all connected through a massive underground ...

The quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is one of Colorado’s most iconic trees and maybe its most dramatic. With smooth white ...

“Generally, there’s a really strong sense of appreciation for trees and almost even a reverence,” Coon said. Aspen is also moving towards a more diverse urban forest, as best practice calls for no ...

The Kebler Pass aspen stand covers the equivalent of just over 100 football fields, with over 47,000 aspen trees, populus tremuloides, connected by a single, subterranean root system called a rhizome.

Aspen clones are some of the largest organisms on the planet. A single aspen clone, known as the “Pando” clone, is located in Fishlake National Forest in southern Utah and measures over 100 acres.

By bringing a diverse set of trees into a single place, they can see which fare better under the same climate. “So just like humans, there's nature and nurture sort of thing. But for these ...

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 ...

This spreading network of natural habitat formed through asexual reproduction revealed genetic data that proved it to be the ...