We were skimming through the Denver Post and noticed this article about new studies showing widespread tree die-off in the intermountain west.

ASPEN’S LAST STAND? | Mountains of trees dying quickly, mysteriously

“Aspen forests in Colorado and throughout the West are fading from the landscape, dying faster and in more places than previously expected and for reasons scientists don’t understand.

In every Western state, aspen mortality is increasing, U.S. Forest Service ecologists say.”  Full article