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 ...

I’m pretty sure this was a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides ... many of us learned that deciduous trees go dormant in the winter. That’s how they cope with the cold dry conditions of ...

However, quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides ... they're often too hot for most traditional trees. After all, even their winter temperatures hover in the range of 40 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Populus tremuloides, the quaking aspen of the North American continent, stands as one of the most easily recognized, most beautiful and most admired of all tree species. In order to help ...