The Gazette

What you're really doing when carving an aspen tree in Colorado

To carve an aspen tree — to take a blade to the trunk for the sake of your initials, for example — is to do harm. Harm to a being with a life expectancy much like our own: 100 years, if we’re lucky.
TreeHugger

Identifying the Aspen Tree

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed tree ...
The New York Times

Killer of Aspen Slows, but Worries About a Beloved Tree Remain

GUNNISON, Colo. Aspen trees, with their quivering, delicate foliage and the warm glow of color they spread across the high country of the Rocky Mountains this time of year, have an emotional appeal ...
JSTOR Daily

Decadal-scale aspen changes: evidence in remote sensing and tree ring data

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Question: (1) Which remote sensing classification most successfully identify aspen using multitemporal Landsat 5 TM images and airborne lidar ...
The Gazette

What you're really doing when carving an aspen tree

To carve an aspen tree — to take a blade to the trunk for the sake of your initials, for example — is to do harm. Harm to a being with a life expectancy much like our own: 100 years, if we’re lucky.