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The world's largest living organism that's being slowly eaten alive
Spanning 106 acres in the United States, between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah, this enormous entity is a genetically identical, cloned aspen tree colony. Weighing around 6,000 ...
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Why Scotland's native aspen trees tremble – and have good reason to do so
It chews on aspen with its large incisors, in preference to other trees, felling them to build ... is found in much of Canada and the northern USA. In Utah, one stand of aspen has been identified ...
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Alliance for the Wild Rockies Challenges Immense Logging and Burning Project in Utah’s Manti-La Sal National Forest
The Manti–La Sal National Forest stretches from central Utah to southeastern Utah ... The La Sal Mountains are lush with lakes, pine, aspen and evergreen trees, and wildlife and provide ...