Document Type

Newsletter

Volume

13

Issue

1

Editor

Paul Rogers

Publisher

Western Aspen Alliance

Publication Date

2-2022

First Page

1

Last Page

4

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Abstract

Aspen: A Reason for Hope

Robert A. Andrus

Tens of millions of trees have died in recent decades in subalpine forests in the western US. Much of this tree mortality has been caused by two natural disturbances—wildfires and outbreaks of native insects (i.e., bark beetles). The loss of so many trees has left us wondering what is next for these areas. Will they return to forest and if so, what will they look like?

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