You'll spot them in an iconic Colorado town with front-row views of the mountains, throughout most of New England, and even ...

By Sterling Randle. SALT LAKE CITY — SB41, a bill that would change the state tree from the Colorado blue spruce to the Quaking Aspen, passed in the Senate on Monday, Feb. 11, 2014.

A forest of quaking aspen trees in Utah, called Pando, has been confirmed to be incredibly old. It is estimated to be between 16,000 and 80,000 years old. This makes Pando one of the oldest living ...

The quaking aspen is a tree of many names: trembling aspen, American aspen, golden aspen, white poplar, and even the nickname "popple." ... Utah Aspen Grove Is 80,000 Years Old .

The blue spruce makes up less than 1 percent of Utah's forest cover, while the quaking aspen makes up 10 percent and is found in all parts of the state, he said.

In the Fishlake National Forest in Utah (pictured above) there is a colony of quaking aspen that is an estimated 80,000 years old, though no individual tree currently alive is anywhere near that ...

If Utah’s quaking aspen appear to be quaking more than usual this summer, the trees have reason to tremble, says a Brigham Young University biologist. In dappled forests across the West, aspen trees ...

Utah has a new state tree. Gov. Gary Herbert joined students at Monroe Elementary School on Wednesday to sign SB41 , which designates the quaking aspen as the state's arboreal symbol.

Utah’s state tree, the quaking aspen is in steep decline across its native range due to a combination of factors, including fire suppression, livestock and big game grazing and, ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has signed into law a measure changing the state tree from the blue spruce to the quaking aspen. The change was propelled by a fourth-grade class at ...