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.

A 105-foot cottonwood tree that was cut out of a Billings backyard last week might have some life left in it. When news of the tree’s demise reached Marty Flanagan, he knew he wanted a piece.

That’s the handiwork of the cottonwood tree. While there are other trees that disperse their seeds in a similar way, “the fluff that you’re seeing right now in giant amounts is cottonwood ...

Cottonwoods are fast growing trees in Populus genus. These trees are hardy to zones 2 through 9. Cottonwood trees produce cotton every other year. They preserve their resources. There is a ...

It isn’t snow. The fluff is from female eastern cottonwood trees. The tree’s seeds are blanketed by thin white floss, sort of like a dandelion, allowing them to hitch a ride on the breeze away ...

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 ...

In May and June, cottonwood seeds, shrouded in fluffy white hairs, set sail on the wind and can float for miles before ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- WCCO's report on a White Bear Lake woman's giant cottonwood tree – one of the biggest in the Twin Cities – struck a chord with our viewers. It also begged the question ...

Nor was it cotton balls falling from the sky. It was our own special warm-weather snow, the cottonwood tree's fuzz, or seed pods, carried on the wind. The trees each produce thousands of drifting ...

He’d found methane, the main ingredient in natural gas, in a tree. Years earlier, he wrote, he’d cut down some cottonwood trees and “observed the formation of bubbles in the sap upon the ...

Cottonwood Spring Oasis ... Climbers flock to Joshua Tree from around the world to tackle the literally thousands of routes open to them. There are challenges for all ability levels, with more ...