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

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.

On mature aspen trees, the tiny mice teeth chew through a partial depth of the bark, leaving the bulk of the tree’s bark intact, enabling it to continue nourishing the tree. Over time, scars on aspen ...

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 ...

Aspen bark is not like the bark of a pine tree or Douglas fir or any other conifer. ... Why anyone would carve an aspen tree, “I have no idea,” West says. “I see it, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starting in the late 1800's, sheepherders, many of from the Basque region of Northern Spain, carved basic messages or elaborate images into the bark of aspen trees in this area.