How To Use Cottonwood In A Sentence
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Surrounded by cottonwoods and aspens and featuring a wooden footbridge and an abundance of regional flora and foliage, it's a place to meditate, contemplate, and relax.
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Other highlights include documenting great white pines, American sycamores, tulip trees, eastern cottonwoods, eastern hemlock, and other species.
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During all three years of our study, locally high densities of fall cankerworm depleted the preferred resource, box elder, and then ‘spilled over’ onto the less-preferred host, cottonwood.
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Be prepared tonight for a journey, and meet me at moonrise beneath the Great Cottonwood.
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Cottonwoods along the rivers made the tallest vegetative layer, and on the surrounding prairies grew shoulder-high sage and greasewood, punctuated by the bunchgrasses close to the ground.
Bird Cloud
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Sandbars often are dominated by pure stands of black willow, while point bars are occupied by diverse forests of cottonwood, sugarberry, sycamore, green ash, and pecan.
Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA)
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Today's excess of elk and buffalo have destroyed woody species such as willow, aspen, cottonwood, alder and serviceberry along the streams and rivers.
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Today's excess of elk and buffalo have destroyed woody species such as willow, aspen, cottonwood, alder and serviceberry along the streams and rivers.
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The eerie squeal of a wood duck came from somewhere behind the gray tangle of naked oaks, willows cypress, elm, tupelo and cottonwood.
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Aspens and cottonwoods turn from green to gold, meadows are dotted with milkweed pods spilling their silvery strands, and a peaceful splendor invites you to relax.
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The rutted roads were thick with mostly male and coed groups, camped where the piñons give way to cottonwoods down by the creek.
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The golden aspen, sometimes referred to as the quaking or trembling aspen, along with cottonwoods are responsible for the region's lemony landscapes.
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Nestled among shimmering aspens and cottonwoods on 3 secluded, wildflower-dappled acres, this hand-hewn log home serves up a feast for the eyes.
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A black bear cub peers from a Cottonwood tree after being scared up there by a visitor to the Whitewater Canyon nature preserve near Palm Springs, California.
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Plants that grow along the stream banks include alder, Fremont cottonwood, sycamore, honey mesquite, and Goodding willow.
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A piece of cottonwood fluff brought low by the rain settles damply onto the hood of the truck.
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The genus Populus (poplars, cottonwoods and aspens) contains approx. 30 species of woody plant, all found in the Northern hemisphere and exhibiting some of the fastest growth rates observed in temperate trees.
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But no matter how much geography changes in the sprawling Old Pueblo, the site still manages to retain its cottonwood-laced charm.
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Red-naped Sapsuckers are the most common sapsucker in deciduous and streamside forests, especially in and around aspen, cottonwood, and willow.
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The willows, white oaks, cottonwoods, and pecans that grow here are normally much taller than the oaks of the Cross Timbers forest.
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The flora is dominated by Sequoia, cypresses, elms, oaks, willows, and cottonwoods.
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We'd go for long walks on the trails, long walks amid the discarded cottonwood and aspen leaves, and laugh at the rustling sounds they made.
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Nests are usually built in deciduous trees, such as aspen, alder, cottonwood, or willow, but they may also be in firs or other conifers.
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A lone cottonwood on the plains might mark a hillside seep or a spot where the water table was within digging distance.
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A bald eagle glides by en route to its evening roost on the branch of a cottonwood tree.
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The banks were lines of dusk, except where some lone cottonwood loomed skyward like a giant ghost clothed with a mantle that glistered and darkled in the chill star-sheen.
The River and I
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Lots of the old cottonwood trees in the West are hollow and could easily hold a gun that long.
Mystery Rifle: Muzzleloader Found in Montana
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The marsh hawk perches in a bare cottonwood tree, scowling at a flock of bufflehead ducks bobbing on the marsh.
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We're suddenly walking among cottonwood, redbud and ash trees: soft greenery juxtaposed with brutally hard rock.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vertical vegetational zonation characterizes the Alaska Range and Wrangell Mountains, beginning with dense bottom-land stands of white spruce and cottonwood on the floodplains and low terraces of the Copper and Susitna Rivers.
Alaska Range Humid Tayga - Tundra - Meadow (Bailey)
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At this elevation, the dominant plant communities are pine-oak-juniper scrub in xeric areas and sycamore-cottonwood-walnut forest along the mesic creek bottoms.
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The islands, flushed with the fresh growth of a Northern spring, and the newly formed shore-line where the capricious Missouri had recently undermined a stretch of bank, gave character to the scene, as did the delicately virent leaves of swirling willow, quaking aspens and cottonwoods loosened from their place on shore to float in midstream.
A Man of Two Countries
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The 16 biggest additions to the Register are all hardwoods: a sycamore, a cottonwood, an elm, 12 oaks, and an introduced eucalyptus.
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Though it may only look like a roadside attraction, the giant beagle creation off Highway 95 in Cottonwood, Idaho is actually a working bed and breakfast.
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They picked wild service berries, choke cherries, and buffalo or bull berries in the fall, and gathered the bark of the cottonwood tree, enjoying its sweet interior.
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Plants that grow along the stream banks include alder, Fremont cottonwood, sycamore, honey mesquite, and Goodding willow.
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Flatboatmen make fast, towards dusk, near the cottonwood or pekan-trees;
Walt Whitman
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Juniper trees are common throughout the canyon as well as mesquite, cottonwood, salt cedar, willow, western soapberry and hackberry.
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Dry inner bark from a cottonwood is tje best tinder.
I'm new to starting fires with flint. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a fire started.
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A pretty, greenswarded little valley lay before me, groups of cottonwoods fringed the stream here and there, around the roots of which were both shade and water.
The Outlet
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A black bear cub peers from a Cottonwood tree after being scared up there by a visitor to the Whitewater Canyon nature preserve near Palm Springs, California.
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The cherry picker went up again, and the lineman looped ropes beneath the nest, a bagel-shaped cup four feet across, woven from cottonwood branches and padded with wheatgrass.
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Cottonwoods along the rivers made the tallest vegetative layer, and on the surrounding prairies grew shoulder-high sage and greasewood, punctuated by the bunchgrasses close to the ground.
Bird Cloud
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The closest major one to the south is Swallow Canyon, which features a large cottonwood grove out on the bajada (alluvial plain) in front of it.
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Hart crossed the desert awakening to its subtle wonder, and wormed his way through canyons thick with brush or cottonwood.
PAINT THE WIND
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Trees such as cottonwoods or hybrid poplars could be used to clean up hazardous waste sites.
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Sets made from dry softwoods, including aspen, willow, cottonwood, and juniper, are preferred, although a spindle made from a slightly harder wood, combined with a softer fireboard, can also work.
Seven Ways To Light a Fire Without a Match
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Our laughter rustled the cottonwoods, our friendship polished the water, our days unsoured by lack of purpose.
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Cottonwood and willow trees, typical of a desert floodplain, are plentiful.
Houston Chronicle
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The remaining assemblage included red oak, ash, a small amount of cottonwood/willow, and locust.
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I've also walked off a quail hunt in Texas, and off a whitetail drive on a cottonwood island in Montana, and off a nilgai hunt in Texas after the hunter behind me sent a rifle bullet past my head.
Why Die When You Can Leave?
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Surrounded by cottonwoods and aspens and featuring a wooden footbridge and an abundance of regional flora and foliage, it's a place to meditate, contemplate, and relax.
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Notably, poplars and other cottonwood trees need moist soil and prefer riparian zones near streams and lakes.
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Along many canals, settlers had planted native cottonwood trees or imported species, like poplars, salt cedars, and pecans, at regular intervals.
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Often they are made to look extra mean by a noble "cottonwood," or
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
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They work the meadow grass, the cottonwoods along the creek, the open barnloft, alive in tilting sweeps of hand-size shadows.
Excerpt: The Fruit of Stone by Mark Spragg
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Valley after valley floats a handful of cottonwood and aspen trees in a dry ocean of sagebrush, the pale gray green running out the flats and over the hills.
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Elks browsed unimpeded on streamside vegetation including cottonwoods and aspens, eating young trees before they could become established, and setting the whole ecosystem in decline.
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We halted to noon under the shade of some fine large cottonwoods, our animals luxuriating on rushes, (_equisetum hyemale_,) which, along this river, were remarkably abundant.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
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He propped two cottonwood branches against the outhouse to make it stand straight.
Alba
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Dry inner bark from a cottonwood is tje best tinder.
I'm new to starting fires with flint. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a fire started.
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There were lots of different species, as I recall, pretty typical of seepage swamp: black ash and cottonwood, buckthorn, marsh marigold, Virginia creeper, touch-me-not, wood nettle.
FALSE MERMAID
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Select light and airy woods like white cedar, white pine, cottonwood, poplar, spruce or larch (tamarack).
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The second half is a mellow drift through a tunnel of cottonwood trees.
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Many of the areas that once supported Fremont cottonwoods have been colonized by tamarisk (Tamarix sp.), an aggressive, water-sucking invader from Eurasia, also known as salt-cedar.
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Coarser soils have fewer oaks and more sugarberry, elm, ash, pecan, cottonwood, and sycamore than Ecoregion 73d.
Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA)
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On the other side, a grove of big cottonwood trees grew far apart, in what botanists call a gallery forest.
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The adjacent habitat usually includes red alder, black elderberry, Scouler's willow, black cottonwood, red-osier dogwood, and yellow monkey flower.
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There were great bottoms that gave evidence of having recently been overflooded, though now covered with cottonwood trees, gorgeous in their autumn foliage.
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
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The pedestal or ground floor of the main building is faced with granite from Little Cottonwood Canyon.
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Nests are usually built in deciduous trees, such as aspen, alder, cottonwood, or willow, but they may also be in firs or other conifers.
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Many of the cottonwoods had shed a large portion of their leaves, taking out much of the copperish reds, and quite a few aspens were still mostly green.
Grouse Diary Entry
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The property included a handsome little island, a shady cottonwood bosque, in the North Platte.
Bird Cloud
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Sage, most of it is, and cheatgrass, but they have a few cottonwoods in a dry creekbed, and a graveyard of abandoned tires Herb is trying to clear, and whole bevies of quail that sometimes sprint across the driveway in the early morning.
Memory Wall
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Both members of the pair excavate a hole in a decayed tree, typically a cottonwood or Ponderosa pine.
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The dirt airstrip cut into a grove of black cottonwoods was adequate without being what you could call plumb level or arrow straight.
Fool’s Paradise
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When pasturage was unavailable, trappers, like the Indians, fed their animals the sweet bark of the cottonwood trees.
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Notably, poplars and other cottonwood trees need moist soil and prefer riparian zones near streams and lakes.
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The river had sported a ragged and changing assemblage of cottonwoods, dense stands of willows, and water-seeking shrubs, weeds, grasses, and moss.
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He had planted slim switches of one kind after another and the wind had blown each to leaflessness, until now there stood a slim row of cottonwoods that he had tried as a last resort, but the same thing would happen to them, perhaps.
The Way of the Wind
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We crossed it and halted on its north bank in a meadow with good pasturage and a fair-sized grove of cottonwoods.
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A boy on an idle Saturday, playing a solitary game of mumblety-peg in the shade of a cottonwood.
Excerpt: Crossers by Philip Caputo
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It has oak trees that are hundreds of years old, towering cottonwoods and sycamores and secluded areas where acres of trunk-to-trunk pecan trees haven't yet grown waist-high.
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Cottonwood trees buzzIng with locusts line the old parade ground.
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When I came back to myself, a woman's voice told us to meet her at the cottonwood out back at moonrise.
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Cottonwoods are a cosmopolitan tree, often overlooked in the wooded eastern states before growing dominant in the open country west of the 100th Meridian.
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Juniper trees are common throughout the canyon as well as mesquite, cottonwood, salt cedar, willow, western soapberry and hackberry.
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The dogwood, oak, chestnut, pine, red maple, black locust, sassafras, hickory, willow, cottonwood, and redbud dotted the landscape.
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In spring, fertilized aphid eggs hatch under the bark of a cottonwood tree.
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In Washington, they use three main types of habitat: forested riversides with large cottonwoods and other hardwoods, Ponderosa pine forests, especially at the lower edge of the tree line, and Garry oak stands.
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The rutted roads were thick with mostly male and coed groups, camped where the piñons give way to cottonwoods down by the creek.
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We were having afternoon tea in the garden when the cottonwood seeds cascaded about resembling a summertime snow.
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The tall cottonwood trees along the bluffs and in the shallows of the river swayed violently in the wind and several snapped in half.
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Those of us who have spent our lives along broad yet shallow prairie rivers never cease to marvel at the prodigious output of cottonwood seeds scattered by the winds every spring.
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Cottonwood and willow trees, typical of a desert floodplain, are plentiful.
Houston Chronicle
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The subtle pinks and reds of tamarisk and acequia willows first appear along our water course, the green of young cottonwood leaves to follow soon.
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For it is a "cottonwood" -- a species not found elsewhere upon the same plain; its seed no doubt transported thither by some straying bird.
The Death Shot A Story Retold
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The cottonwoods shimmered, the dirt turned gold, but back at camp that night, everyone's nerves frayed from a long day on the rock, emotions ran high.
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Vertical vegetational zonation characterizes the Alaska Range and Wrangell Mountains, beginning with dense bottom-land stands of white spruce and cottonwood on the floodplains and low terraces of the Copper and Susitna Rivers.
Alaska Range Humid Tayga - Tundra - Meadow (Bailey)
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The floodplains contained cottonwood, willow, box elder, and soft maple.
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Led by their chief, bearing the insignia of the Antelope fraternity and the whizzer, followed by the asperger, with his medicine bowl and aspergill and wearing a chaplet of green cottonwood leaves on his long, glossy, black hair, they circle the plaza four times, each time stamping heavily on the sipapu board with the right foot, as a signal to the spirits of the underworld that they are about to begin the ceremony.
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
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Selman's cottonwood recruitment has been beset by salt cedar invasion, deer browsing, and heavy grazing by cattle on lush bottomland grasses.
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Nests are usually built in deciduous trees, such as aspen, alder, cottonwood, or willow, but they may also be in firs or other conifers.
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On his farm, he uses as mix of hybrid poplars and cottonwoods as windbreaks to reduce erosion and improve water quality.
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This cottonwood, which is now in fruit, is of a different species from any in
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
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The golden aspen, sometimes referred to as the quaking or trembling aspen, along with cottonwoods are responsible for the region's lemony landscapes.
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Opposite the cottonwood, on the far bank, is a 40-foot undercut cliff that resembles the prow of a ship.
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The nest is often located in a willow, cottonwood, or other hardwood tree, and is a pendulous basket suspended from a thin branch that commonly hangs over water.
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The result: flooding took place, and cottonwood seeds that landed on the wet soil after the water receded produced about 10,000 seedlings.
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It was less than two miles from the station down along the river to his homesite under the cottonwoods.
SKINWALKERS
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Younger sandy soils have fewer oaks and more sugarberry, elm, ash, pecan, cottonwood, and sycamore than Ecoregion 73d.
Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)
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More than anything, the prolifically seeding cottonwood needs flooding to prepare a fertile seedbed.
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The mountain tops are wild, but the valley bottom is filled with cottonwood trees, purple sage and wild geranium, and riverside paths meander away to waterfalls and pools.
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CPT BRAD regarding the public lashings, my wife often says that its a good thing that I am not a judge otherwise the limbs on the cottonwood trees down by the creek would be worn out from public hangings.
.177-Caliber Parenting
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Verne Huser steers his canoe past a cottonwood snag with the ease of a man who has paddled Western rivers for five decades.
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For years Cottonwood Creek was channeled through a 96-inch pipe.
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Before cultivation, this area was covered by bottom-land deciduous forest with an abundance of green and Carolina ash, elm, cottonwood, sugarberry, sweetgum, and water tupelo, as well as oak and bald cypress.
Lower Mississippi Riverine Forest Province (Bailey)
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Scarcity of cottonwood and box elder at this elevation makes previous exposure to these hosts unlikely.
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We had all our canoes brought down, and were obliged to cauk and pitch very attentively the cracks so common in cottonwood.
History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.
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It has oak trees that are hundreds of years old, towering cottonwoods and sycamores and secluded areas where acres of trunk-to-trunk pecan trees haven't yet grown waist-high.
