Document Type
Newsletter
Volume
3
Issue
3
Editor
Paul Rogers
Publisher
Western Aspen Alliance
Publication Date
8-2012
First Page
1
Last Page
4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Abstract
No simple answer to "What killed the Aspen?"
Mary Lou Fairweather
The recent impacts to aspen in central Arizona are so apparent that I even get questioned at social gatherings: “Tell me again, what is killing the aspen?” The answer is complicated, and harkens back to a muddled media interview. I met the reporter at the Arboretum at Flagstaff and rambled on about drought, spring frost, fire suppression, forest succession, secondary insects and diseases, and ungulate browsing. “But what killed the aspen?” the reporter asked. Nearby an Arboretum docent led a group of visitors to a small aspen grove and simply explained drought had killed large trees and young trees are being lost to herbivory. So, the docent made the evening news.
Recommended Citation
Western Aspen Alliance, "Tremblings, August 2012" (2012). Tremblings. Paper 13.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/tremblings/13