DENVER (KDVR) — Considering how quickly fires can turn forests to ash, it may come as a surprise that the U.S. Forest Service says fire is necessary for aspen trees to thrive. Of all the various ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After decades of decline, the aspen forests of northern Yellowstone are finally making a comeback, and believe it or not, it's all ...

Yellowstone has opened the eyes of experts to another ecological phenomenon, which has been linked to the return of wolves in the area. It has been explained in detail within the journal Forest ...

According to The Washington Post, the only apex predators that roamed Yellowstone National Park for most of the 20th century were bears and cougars after wolves were eliminated from the area. The ...

New research from Western Colorado University shows that the long-held conventional belief about aspen trees being resilient to wildfires is more than just an anecdotal assumption. Matt Harris, a ...

What looks like barren land can change rapidly with the return of a single species. The aspen tree grows quickly, spreads ...

Warming temperatures continuously impact mankind, wildlife, major corporations and propositions at all levels of government, but for Flagstaff forests, climate change is a catalyst for countless ...

When a wildfire is tearing through a conifer forest, the assumption is usually that trees are simply fuel, more vegetation means a bigger, faster moving fire. Two recent studies, one covering the ...

This week, a team of researchers from Sweden, Belgium, England, Italy, Norway and South Korea publish the genomes of two species of aspen trees, a project that has taken close to ten years to complete ...

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 contrast of the smooth, pale gray bark and bright orange leaves of aspen trees in the fall is a sight to behold in Arizona's higher elevations. But this beautiful display is under threat from an ...