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Aspen along Dolores Creek, San Juan Mountains, Colorado    ID# 617-FC-75
Dolores Creek, Colorado. This brilliant grove of orange-tipped aspen sets a hillside ablaze above the Dolores River in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Normally, the colors in one specific aspen tree do not vary much but these trees were all two-toned. Since aspen propagate through underground shoots and roots known as rhizomes, these trees are all probably genetic clones of each other. As a footnote to this rhizome-propagating process, scientists speculate that the largest living organism on earth is indeed one huge genetically-identical grove of aspen trees on a Colorado mountainside. All photos in these galleries may be ordered as fine art framed prints or for stock photography usage.

This image is from James Kay Gallery 6 - Autumn Colors of the American West