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Quaking aspen and cottonwoods, members of the poplar family, both turn brilliant yellow in autumn. Aspens prefer habitat above 5,000 feet and grow along the margins of the sagebrush steppe or intermixed with conifers. Cottonwoods edge river banks throughout the west. The Snake River meanders an ancestral alluvial plain built up when its hydraulics system carried massive sediment loads produced by melting glaciers.