WHEELER COUNTY, Neb. (KOLN) - Pibel Lake Recreation Area is home to the Lower Loup Natural Resource District, geese and as of February 2025, the largest known cottonwood tree in Wheeler County.

It seems fitting that Nebraska, which has chosen the cottonwood as its state tree, would have the largest one in the United States. The Nebraska Forest Service learned this week that a towering ...

IT’S ALSO WHERE YOU CAN FIND IOWA’S THIRD LARGEST COTTONWOOD TREE IN THE STATE. THAT IS UNTIL IT WAS REMOVED THIS WEEK. MAYOR SIMPSON SAYS IT WAS DUE TO PUBLIC SAFETY. RATHER THAN TAKE THE ...

PATAGONIA - What was long the nation's biggest cottonwood tree is dead, split into two slabs, its gargantuan trunk sprawling askew. Its base is hollow, its bark, rotting. Most of its leaves are ...

“When I was working they used to circulate the Big Tree Register and I’d say, ‘That’s nice.' But I’d think, ‘I know a cottonwood that is bigger,’ ” Lewing said. That launched his ...

If so, you’ve probably met the Eastern Cottonwood. The poplars are a few of New England’s amazing tree pioneers. Cottonwoods, along with related big-toothed and trembling Aspens, aren’t ...

For decades, Flanagan has courted Montana’s largest and oldest trees for their cuttings. “They’re my favorite tree,” he said of the cottonwood variety, “and they’re cloned fairly ...

But I loved to climb up that tree and sit there looking out at the world from above. The massive strength of the big branches of that cottonwood just seemed to wrap around me. I felt safe up there.

Despite its stature, the tree is falling behind on the leaderboard for the tallest in the city ... paper birch, black cottonwood, Pacific madrone, Pacific dogwood and vine maple.