The most frequent polypore species of conservation concern were either characteristic of specific substrates (notably aspen trunks) or early-successional stand conditions.
Mirrored walls take a row of slender aspen tree trunks and make it seem like a forest hundreds of trees deep, making you feel as though you're roughing it in some extremely slick and well-designed woods.
Although there isn't really anything funny about avalanches, his manner of survival, in a few of the half dozen or so that he has been caught in — clinging to the trunk of an aspen tree, high above the ground, or buried upside down, with his legs sticking straight out of the snow — can sound cartoonish.
There is also poplar, aspen, and larch, and occasionally great trunks of Korean pine, a species that was logged by the Soviets until there was almost none left to cut down.
There are the rangy trunks of the trees in Aspen Wood, spliced by beams of a rusty sun.
Passing through it on a blustery January afternoon, I was suddenly transported from the Colorado über-resort's manicured ski boulevards into a topsy-turvy wonderland: a backwoods bowl filled with snow so deep that the surrounding stands of aspen and lodgepole pine trees seemed dwarfed -- their trunks buried six feet under thick white curds.
The charges would have been based on a rifle found in the car, a bipod to hold the weapon found in the trunk and two new items, a glove that matched one found at a shooting scene in the Aspen Hill area and a notepad that matched the paper used in notes that investigators think the sniper sent.
Our study indicates that the prerequisites for new-establishment for spore dispersed lichen species, on remnant aspen, may be fulfilled in terms of availability of free-living photobionts on the northern side of the trunks.
The smaller aspen's leaves flicker at the edge of the stand, trembling and caught in sunlight against the staves of the larger trunks, the gloom beyond.
