Aspen trees aren’t just a pretty sight in the fall, they could also be a valuable tool for crews as they fight wildfires in the state.
“What we found is that wildfires, when they interacted with landscapes with a lot of aspen, so like more than 25% of the landscape had some aspen in it, fires tended to grow less in a given day,” said Camille Stevens-Rumann, interim director for CSU’s Colorado Forest Restoration Institute.
Stevens-Rumann spearheaded the study, working along with researchers from Western Colorado University and the U.S. Forest Service…