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 ...

Cottonwood trees send out clouds of white puffs that are seeds ... spreading along some 200 miles of river and creating a foundation for the bosque of the middle Rio Grande, the portion in New Mexico.

The importance of the Rio Grande cottonwood to the historic human inhabitants of the Grand Valley might be less familiar. We live in an area with few large native trees, so it seems obvious the ...

Cottonwood trees send out clouds of white puffs that ... of river and creating a foundation for the bosque of the middle Rio Grande, the portion in New Mexico. It is the largest cottonwood bosque ...

There’s a champion Rio Grande cottonwood, one of the tallest trees of its species in the United States, in north Durango that stands more than 100 feet and continues to grow. Massive oak trees ...

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 ...