FARGO — Nine new champion trees were found last year across North Dakota, including a cottonwood in Cass County that is considered by the North Dakota Forest Service to be the largest tree in ...

Use leaves, bark, and habitat to identify a cottonwood tree, ... Quebec, North Dakota, and Texas. Black ... of the most shade-intolerant hardwood tree species, second to only black willow.

Dams were already killing off North Dakota’s cottonwood trees. Climate change could hasten their decline. The damming of the Missouri River in the 1950s put its cottonwood trees on the ropes.

Eastern cottonwood is one of the largest eastern hardwoods, short-lived but the fastest-growing commercial forest species in North America. Skip to content Menu ...

In 1986, the North Dakota Forest Service and Centennial Trees Commission joined as sponsors. The “ND Champion Tree Register” was renamed and expanded to include native and naturalized non ...

The blue-footed borer is a native to North America and is able to use willows, cottonwoods, aspens and locusts. A number of wood-boring beetle species make pests of themselves by moving into orchards ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — A 9-year-old moose at a Bismarck zoo has died after strong winds caused a tree to fall on the animal. KXMB-TV reports that Walter the moose died early Monday at the Dakota Zoo ...