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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Standing in an aspen grove, surrounded by slender white trunks and a canopy of leaves that rustle in the slightest breeze, it's easy to think only of the trees. Hidden in the roots, soil, and ...

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 ...

As you drive on Independence Pass, you may notice vibrant yellows, oranges and reds scattered among the trees. It is officially autumn in Aspen, and leaf-peeping season is here. According to the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...