The Memorial Day weekend may have marked the unofficial start to summer, but avalanches continue to pose a danger to ...

As we exit May, we can look out on a green foliated forest. The trees that began the month bare are now nearly complete in wearing their leafy attire. It began with the small shrubs of elderberry and ...

There are also aspen trees in the mountains of Mexico, as far south as Guanajuato. They tend to grow in lower altitudes in the north and higher altitudes in the south. "Quaking aspens are ...

The summer camping season is right around the corner, and New Mexico has four different national forests with dozens of campsites to choose from. They range from more ...

Populus joined downtown Denver in October 2024 as the nation's first "carbon positive" hotel. Here's what it's like to stay there.

The hotel’s moniker comes from the scientific name for the quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), the native tree that served ... piece first appeared in the summer 2025 print issue of Outside ...

A quaking aspen tree, Pando aspen, in Fishlake National Forest, Utah. The trees are part of a single organism, called a clonal body. Photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, National Geographic ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree ( Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...

Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around 47,000 stems connected by a root system that sprawls about 43 hectares in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. It has long ...

It is, of course, aspen putting on the dazzling displays. This is our celebrated tree of fall, the quaking aspen so named for those leaves that quake or flicker in the breeze, twinkle in the sun ...

Answer: Popple (or poplar) are common names for aspen trees because their genus is populus, but many trees are in that genus. In Minnesota we have two native aspens — quaking aspen (populus ...

Opened last summer, the new single-track path ... before encountering a gorgeous passage lined with aspen trees. The white-trunked quaking aspens (presumably the “quakies” of the Quaky ...