The bark of older trees is deeply furrowed. The Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii), also known as the western cottonwood or the Rio Grande cottonwood, occurs in California east to Utah and ...

The western boundary is not well defined because ... Fire generally kills eastern cottonwood. Mature trees with thick bark may be only scarred or top-killed. Fire scars may facilitate the onset ...

This tree, an eastern cottonwood, stands about 85 feet tall and is more than 100 years old. It’s a well recognized landmark ...

If you’ve been outside lately, you may have noticed white fluff drifting through the air. That’s cottonwood—and it’s making quite the fluffy entrance this season.

Snow in June — it happens every year. This snow, though, is made up of the fluffy cotton-like seeds that float off cottonwood ...

No young cottonwoods grew nearby. I’ve met trees like that Lamar Valley cottonwood all over the western U.S., and wondered which among them are the last to grow in those places. Between severe ...

A 100-foot cottonwood tree obstructs drivers from all directions ... at this tucked-away spot near the Western Skies Byway.

Yes, snow. And for that I can thank the majestic Eastern cottonwood tree that has been growing on the farm on the edge of a creek since, well, before the farm was cultivated. It was growing there ...

The cottonwood and willow trees are in the reservoir ... Co. will begin work at the north boat ramp and continue down the western shores of the reservoir, stopping at the South Platte River.

The discovery of a hybrid population of poplar trees in western Wyoming has provided ... which described a novel lineage of hybrid black cottonwood, or Populus trichocarpa, and balsam poplar ...