New group to try to solve aspen mystery (AP)

POCATELLO, Idaho - A working group has been formed in southeastern Idaho to find out why aspen trees are disappearing. "The trees are dying like they're supposed to do, but then something happens that is killing the root system out completely," Dale Bartos, an ecologist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station's Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Logan, Utah, told the Idaho State Journal. "This is a big concern of a lot of people right now. I suspect it will be determined to be some type of disease ...