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 ...

Aspen has distinctive, almost-circular leaves with flattened petioles or stems. This flattening causes the leaves to tremble or flutter in the slightest breeze, thereby giving the tree one of its ...

FLAGSTAFF — Beneath the scenic yellow and red leaves of soaring aspen trees in the Kachina Wilderness, forest ecologist Mike Stoddard is looking down. His concern isn’t the brilliant fall ...

The ability of aspen to produce whole stands of "trees" vegetatively provides yet ... Why do quaking aspen leaves quake and tremble? The leaves of this species quake, shake and tremble in the ...