DENVER (KDVR) — What changes colors, shakes and covers five million acres of Colorado? Quaking aspen trees — they’re a “symbol of the Colorado high country,” according to Colorado Encyclopedia. The ...

On one of the friendliest platforms imaginable, a ferocious battle rages. While mowing its way through the surface of a trembling leaf, an aspen leaf miner meets one of its kind. Instead of offering a ...

Aspen trees can slow wildfires, giving communities more time and helping reduce fire spread even during extreme fire seasons.

They are tiny, flat caterpillars barely visible to the human eye, but blotchminers can sneak inside an aspen tree leaf and eat the insides out. "Just like a kid eating the baloney out of a baloney ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fall leaves in Smith Lake at Washington Park on Oct. 21, 2019 in Denver. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) Look beyond Colorado’s shimmering yellow ...

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 ...

Researchers at McGill University have confirmed that aspen play a key role in forest fire prevention and mitigation across ...

The 2023 leaf-peeping season has officially kicked-off in Colorado’s High Country, bringing pockets of fall color to mountainsides across the state. Thanks to above-average precipitation in past ...

When a wildfire is tearing through a conifer forest, the assumption is usually that trees are simply fuel, more vegetation ...

Ready your iPhones and picnic blankets: Colorado’s leaf peeping season is here. As summer wanes and fall approaches, pockets of yellow aspen trees are becoming more and more abundant. Within weeks, ...

After the summer months when tourism is tapering off in Flagstaff, the changing colors of the aspen trees bring people up the mountain to peep the rainbow of leaves on the San Francisco Peaks and ...