Ever wonder what is the largest tree in the Hawkeye State? Well, as it turns out, it is located in Mitchell County just seven miles south of the Minnesota border.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 10 years after buying Family Dollar for about $9 billion, Dollar Tree announced it would sell the retailer to two private equity firms. By Claire Moses Dollar Tree is selling the Family ...

MOLINE -- Sawdust floated down like a snow shower Tuesday as a chainsaw carved and sliced away the huge cottonwood tree that for more than 160 years has loomed over the city at a site of a home ...

The intersection of 350th Street and 710th Street near Brayton, Iowa, falls in the latter category: there’s a massive Cottonwood tree that serves as a roundabout. What came first, the tree or ...

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 ...

“Cottonwood and the River of Time” (UW Press, 2009), extolling the virtues and remarkable resilience of the tree he so deeply knew and loved. And he shared his knowledge of the tree with ...

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 ...