The Bastrop Bark Park, land that has served residents and their four-legged friends for the last 16 years, is on track to receive an official parkland designation after Bastrop City Council approved ...

When he spots one, he hops into his wooden motorboat and roars toward it, chainsawing any roots or branches that might still be attached, a hand-rolled cigarette never far from his lips. Then he drags ...

Have you ever paused beneath a towering oak or maple and wondered if that rough, gnarled bark is hiding secrets? What if I ...

Every species of tree has unique characteristics, from its bark to its leaves, that you can use as clues to identify ...

Herders carved names, slogans, nude silhouettes and more into the trees around them during lonely seasons in the mountains. Now, researchers rush to find and record the arborglyphs before they ...

Aspen trees tend to have rough bark that ranges in color: greenish or yellowish, grey, white, or a mix. These trees are medium-sized, growing between 20 and 80 feet tall.

Closer to home, aspen trees have a layer of green bark underlying the external whitish bark. Even in winter, when the leaves have dropped, the bark can use the available daylight to make sugars ...

For some trees, winter does not mean a complete cessation in photosynthetic activity or growth. Quaking aspens store chlorophyll beneath their bark (particularly in younger trees), this is what ...

The researchers collected samples of roots, bark, leaves and branches from across the Pando clone, as well as from other, unrelated quaking aspen trees for comparison.

Downtown Denver’s newest hotel evokes Colorado’s signature aspen trees, billed as “carbon positive” Populus Hotel focuses on environmental sustainability, 100% renewable sources for ...

Some aspen trees have grayish-white bark when they are young or on higher branches, but the bark won’t peel like paper birch. For example, ...

Aspen trees are particularly vulnerable because they are linked together underground, so carving into one tree can potentially damage multiple trees. Additionally, aspen bark can photosynthesize ...