While bark beetles have been slowly infesting trees in Aspen, winter won’t offer any respite. Aspen is currently home to the Douglas-fir beetle, the spruce beetle, the mountain pine beetle, Ips ...

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 ...

The Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive species of bark beetle that was discovered in Colorado in 2013 and has been expanding through the state, has the potential to damage the Colorado landscape. And ...

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, ...