This summer has been hot. Too hot. We are in a stage 2 drought in the Roaring Fork Valley, in a drought pattern that stretches back 20 years. When I started to research what the impact of the drought ...
On the shoulder of Kebler Pass, about seven miles west of Crested Butte, a giant lounges in the Colorado high country. The Kebler Pass aspen stand covers the equivalent of just over 100 football ...
New research from Western Colorado University shows that the long-held conventional belief about aspen trees being resilient to wildfires is more than just an anecdotal assumption. Matt Harris, a ...
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.
At a deep fold in the Copper Coast, that 25km ancient stretch of the Waterford coastline between Tramore and Dungarvan formed 460 million years ago, the land yields to the sea, forming a sheltered ...