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. “This ...

Dear California transplants and any other newcomers to Oklahoma from west of the foothills of the Rockies: Those big white fluffs floating everywhere? Pollen. Wait’ll you see the bees. We kid!

There’s something magical about spring on the farm. In part, it’s what poet James Hearst called “the chores of birth,” and we’ve certainly seen plenty of that during the past several weeks. Nearly a ...

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A drone photo shows the large eastern cottonwood on Howard Street in Burlington on July 20, the day of its removal. Photo courtesy of Scott Sexton The buzz of chainsaws provided the exit music for a ...

Willow cuttings treated with a microbe that naturally occurs in an eastern cottonwood are able to withstand the toxic effects of growing in a solution with the industrial pollutant phenanthrene.

An eagle nest in a cottonwood tree on the Cold River. Have you ever walked or paddled along a riverbank, and noticed a towering tree with deeply-furrowed gray bark and huge bright green leaves that ...