Editor’s note: A version of this story appears in this year’s edition of the Winter in Aspen/Snowmass magazine. Imagine standing in a snow-covered forest so serene that you can hear the soft murmur of ...

I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, and there between the buildings and the cars was a gorgeous aspen tree ...

Question: What’s the difference between a popple tree and an aspen? I hear the terms used interchangeably. Answer: Popple (or poplar) are common names for aspen trees because their genus is populus, ...