It’s not just the lodgepole pines that are dying in the Colorado mountains. Thirteen percent of aspen trees in the state are now affected by Sudden Aspen Decline, which is caused by disease and ...

This summer has been hot. Too hot. We are in a stage 2 drought in the Roaring Fork Valley, in a drought pattern that stretches back 20 years. When I started to research what the impact of the drought ...

We have a problem with our aspen trees. Nearly all of them are sapping quite a bit and are also splitting down the sides. We live at 6,100 feet in Paonia. Last summer the leaves were mottled. Any ...

It was an aspen tree, not one yet showing off the shiny leaves we seek this time of year. Maybe they would never show. “I saw the orange hue on the bark,” said Korb, who has researched the beloved ...

On the shoulder of Kebler Pass, about seven miles west of Crested Butte, a giant lounges in the Colorado high country. The Kebler Pass aspen stand covers the equivalent of just over 100 football ...

Ed Cooper, who lives on Purdy Mesa in the Whitewater area, loves driving up Lands End Road to the top of Grand Mesa to escape the heat. “It’s just a beautiful place,” he said. Even from his house, he ...