The 265-room, 13-story Populus Hotel in downtown Denver features two restaurants and natural elements in its architecture and ...

Throughout the summer Routt County Master Gardeners have been busy educating our neighbors about best gardening practices.

At Stellar Jay, the hotel's rooftop restaurant, the views were great but the food left a lot to be desired.

with their bark peeling like sheets of paper. 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 ...

so carving into one tree can potentially damage multiple trees. Additionally, aspen bark can photosynthesize at 30%-50% of the capability of its leaves, according to the Colorado Native Plant Society.

Driving east on S.R. 35 was just as picturesque as ever Monday afternoon, still-golden aspen trees mixed with evergreens, ...

While other deciduous trees go dormant, aspen continues to grow and provide those nibbling animals with the sugary, green layer found beneath the thin, white bark. Other animals big and small ...

The U.S. Forest Service, Colorado State Forest Service and organizations like Leave No Trace discourage people from carving into aspen trees because the bark serves a similar purpose as skin.

When Grouse Enhanced Management Sites were established in 2014, the goal was simple yet ambitious: create premium grouse and woodcock habitat for hunters. “We recognized the need to highlight grouse ...

devastated by bark beetle outbreaks. But without disturbances, aspen forests are often replaced by conifers over time,” the Colorado Native Plant Society website said. Though the aspen trees ...

On a recent bluebird Colorado day above East Vail, aspen trees show off peak bright yellows ... He peeled off a strip of bark from a fallen log to reveal a pattern in the wood.