Some organisms can outlive humans by hundreds or even thousands of years, and the contender for Earth's oldest living thing ...

I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, and there between the buildings and the cars was a gorgeous aspen tree ...

Quaking aspen can be found from Alaska to Mexico and ... For many years, most western forest ecologists thought aspen reproduction from seeds was so rare as to warrant a publication of a single ...

Standing in the small open meadow, deep in the north woods my group of photographers and I were enjoying the early morning calmness. Sunlight streamed through the branches of black ash and quaking ...

Standing in the small open meadow, deep in the North Woods, a group of photographers and I were enjoying the early morning calmness. Sunlight streamed through the branches of black ash and quaking ...

Pando is a quaking aspen tree found in Utah's Fishlake National Forest in Sevier County. Looking at pictures of it, you'd be forgiven for wondering which one among the hundreds of trunks is that ...

Pando is the most extensive known clonal colony of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), originating ... while reptiles like garter snakes patrol the forest floor. Each species, from the tiniest ...