When fall rolls around in Alberta, there's no mistaking the unmistakable golden hues that paint the landscape. The brilliant yellows that dominate the province’s parkland are a sight to behold, ...

A new tree disease, known as aspen running canker, was recently discovered in the N.W.T. This disease is often fatal to the trees it infects and could cause problems when it comes to wildfire ...

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 foliage but ...

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, ...

Aspen, also known as aspen poplar, poplar (especially outside North America), popple, trembling aspen, bigtooth aspen, quaky and a dozen other local names, is a wonderful wood for many use. The lumber ...

Tourists and hikers carve images such as hearts, hate symbols and initials into aspen trees. This permanently harms the trees ...

As part of our Scotland’s Wonderful Wildlife series, Alan Watson Featherstone reveals the many threats faced by Scotland native aspen trees – a species that created the world oldest and largest living ...

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 ...

When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest near Madison, Wisconsin, in the early spring of 2021, we expected to finalize our plans for a research project on several species of insects that ...

The first case of aspen running canker in the territory was confirmed by field crews from Wilfrid Laurier University and the ...