JT Thomas It's a relentlessly sunny day in the Rocky Mountains, and here at 9,000 feet, on the Grand Mesa in western Colorado, the aspen trees should be casting a shadow. But something is wrong in ...

However, aspen also has the ability to send up new young shoots, or suckers, off the root system of an established tree, sometimes up to 30 metres away, if the tree is large.

Shepherds, often of Mexican, Basque, Greek or Irish descent, have long spent summer months high in Wyoming’s mountains ... their marks on the bark of aspen trees as they traveled through ...

Aspen’s mountains are expected to receive a fresh blanket of snow on Wednesday, with accumulations ranging from 6-8 inches and the possibility of up to 10 inches at the highest elevations, according ...