Oh it can help you anytime of the year. Aspen groves are normally grass covered which is prime elk food during the fall. Find a good stand of aspen and look around you will find tracks and droppings. Find fresh and you are into elk. They often bed on a ridge near quakies especially if there is water nearby. Aspens offer a transition from the impenetrable dark timber where they spend most of the daylight time and the grass meadows where they feed. My hunting buddy Rob has a cabin for sale and the inside is aspen tongue and groove. What beautiful wood.