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 ...

Pando is an ancient quaking aspen ... tree trunks, connected to a vast underground root system. Each stem is a clone of the one next to it and originates from a single seed that started growing up ...

Inspired by the dark “eyes” of the aspen tree — scars left behind on the trunks after the trees drop lower limbs that aren’t getting enough sunlight — the distinctive window designs in ...