Pando is an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides ... to 40 blue whales or three times the world's largest single-stem tree — California's General Sherman giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron ...

and many cloned aspen trees can grow from the same root system. Aspen clones are some of the largest organisms on the planet. A single aspen clone, known as the “Pando” clone, is located in ...

JT Thomas It's a relentlessly sunny day in the Rocky Mountains, and here at 9,000 feet, on the Grand Mesa in western Colorado, the aspen trees should be casting a shadow. But something is wrong in ...

It is the most widely distributed tree in the United States. According to the Hardwood Lumber and Veneer Series, aspen is one of our lightest woods with a 12 percent moisture content and a weight of ...

A single clone may exhibit multiple colors ... 2008). The ability of aspen to produce whole stands of "trees" vegetatively provides yet another key element in explaining the species’ ability ...

According to the Hardwood Lumber and Veneer Series, aspen is one of our lightest woods with a 12 percent moisture content and a weight of 26 to 27 pounds per cubic foot. It was at one time relegated ...

But another sight among the aspen trees is giving natural resource managers in the Lake Tahoe Basin pause. In June 2018, scientists first noticed that aspen trees around the basin were looking more ...