On the shoulder of Kebler Pass, about seven miles west of Crested Butte, a giant lounges in the Colorado high country.  The Kebler Pass aspen stand covers the equivalent of just over 100 football fields, with over 47,000 aspen trees, populus tremuloides, connected by a single, subterranean root system called a rhizome. The trees are … Continue reading What Conservation Coalitions Have Learned from an Aspen Tree