When the Kansas legislature selected a state tree it chose the native cottonwood because its presence was synonymous with ...

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 ...

The trees will include a variety of narrow-leaf cottonwood trees of varying age classes ranging in size from 2 to 3 feet tall. The trees will include both containered and bare root stock.

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.

Are you wondering how dangerous removing a leaning Cottonwood tree can be? This video takes you through the intense process as a crane is used to safely remove the massive tree. With the tree ...

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 ...

The new growth is high in protein and minerals. Forestryimages.org provides several images of parts of Eastern cottonwood. The tree is a hardwood and the lineal taxonomy is Magnoliopsida ...

A group of us recently toured Lamoille Canyon, looking at the recovery from the Range2 wildfire of 2018. The tour was sponsored by the Friends of the Ruby Mountains. This devastating, fast-moving ...

Matthew Beckman, head of the biology department at Augsburg University, arrived at his office on the morning of Aug. 27 to find the giant cottonwood tree outside his office had fallen. “I pulled into ...

Look beyond Colorado’s shimmering yellow aspen trees for wonderful leaf-peeping ... River or stream banks: Narrowleaf cottonwoods turn yellow; Great Plains cottonwoods turn bright yellow ...

The city of Aspen manages 3,115 narrowleaf cottonwood trees — roughly 27% of Aspen’s “urban forest.” Cottonwoods provide the leafy backdrop to Rio Grande Park, shade the gables of West ...