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In today’s society, we have adopted a landscaping method that will not withstand the test of nature as the world warms up.

Tree planters are hard at work this spring planting aspen seedlings in the Whitehorse South fuel break. The goal is to build a natural barrier to wildfire, by removing all the highly flammable ...

Those seedlings won't survive. A common problem when planting aspen seedlings: the 'j-root.' (Andrew Hynes/CBC) Out of the 19 trees in the plot, they found one j-root.

Crystal To walked through a barren, burnt landscape — over ash, dirt and the soot-black remains of small charred stumps. She slammed a small shovel into the ground, wiggled it back and forth to create ...

The aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed tree species in North America, ranging from Alaska to Newfoundland and down the Rocky Mountains to Mexico. Utah and Colorado, in ...

Aspen groves are unique ecosystems that develop and survive off an underground root system that spreads out, sending new "suckers" that become aspen trees. Their roots connect many individual ...

I’m pretty sure this was a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) or as many of us New Englanders know them, a quaking poplar. When I think of a "cheery" tree, I think of quaking aspens.

However, aspen also has the ability to send up new young shoots, or suckers, off the root system of an established tree, sometimes up to 30 metres away, if the tree is large.

When the roots are disturbed and there is lots of sunlight, new trees sprout with as many as 1 million sprouts per acre. Aspen wood is lightweight and fairly weak and bendable.

Aspen roots can lie dormant under the soil as a fire clears the area, and new suckers will rise to the surface to quickly reforest the affected area faster than other types of trees.

Niamh Byrne, aspen project officer at Trees for Life, said: “The new aspen network will offer much-needed hope for tackling the nature and climate emergencies by developing a restored, better ...