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.

Neighbors said that in the summer, the 60-foot cottonwood littered the street with cotton. On Monday morning, sawdust fell from the tree as crews down the cottonwood at the center of a neighborhood… ...

Sierra Leone has been dealt a “great loss,” the country’s leader said Thursday, after its Cotton Tree, which served as a symbol of national freedom, was brought down.

A runner passes under an old cottonwood tree Thursday on East 32nd Street in north Durango. The tree is expected to be removed to make way for an Animas River Trail underpass.

BRIGHTON, Colo. — For a second straight year, a cottonwood tree holding an active bald eagle nest at Barr Lake State Park blew down in a windstorm. Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) said the ...

Cotton fuels fire in Chicago Ridge 00:16. CHICAGO RIDGE, Ill. (CBS) -- Cotton from a tree helped fuel a fast-moving fire in southwest suburban Chicago Ridge Tuesday afternoon. Neighbors said the ...

The 40-year-old cottonwood tree pictured in front of 422 Pratt St. March 14, 2017 will be removed by the city because neighbors have complained about the mess it makes in the spring.

A giant tree that towered over Sierra Leone's capital for centuries and symbolized freedom to its residents came down during a heavy rainstorm. Standing over 200 feet tall and nearly 50 feet wide ...

A bulldozer clears the fallen Cotton Tree in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday May 25, 2023. Sierra Leone’s centuries-old iconic Cotton Tree, seen as a symbol of liberty and freedom by ...