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A great horned owl perches, looks around and blinks his eyes in a cottonwood just outside Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and ...

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Crews remove two cottonwood trees from Seventh Street in Coeur d'Alene on Friday. The towering trees were the subject of concern for neighbors, who said large branches have snapped off and were ...

Every year the eastern cottonwood trees in Michigan release their fluffy seeds. The end of June likely marks the end of this process. Here's what to know.

Cottonwood trees disperse seeds via wind, using white, fluffy tufts. This typically lasts four weeks, from late May to late June. The trees are common in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, growing near ...

Each tiny white seed carries a parachute of cottony fluff. (Tami Gingrich photos) Yet it’s the conspicuous way in which the eastern cottonwood disperses its seeds that gives the tree its name ...