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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.
Red-naped Sapsuckers are the most common sapsucker in deciduous and streamside forests, especially in and around aspen, cottonwood, and willow.
The marsh hawk perches in a bare cottonwood tree, scowling at a flock of bufflehead ducks bobbing on the marsh.
Scarcity of cottonwood and box elder at this elevation makes previous exposure to these hosts unlikely.
We were having afternoon tea in the garden when the cottonwood seeds cascaded about resembling a summertime snow.
Along many canals, settlers had planted native cottonwood trees or imported species, like poplars, salt cedars, and pecans, at regular intervals.
Notably, poplars and other cottonwood trees need moist soil and prefer riparian zones near streams and lakes.
Or, a cottonwood grove could shade a permanent spring, even though the waterhole was likely trampled by thousands of buffalo hooves.
When pasturage was unavailable, trappers, like the Indians, fed their animals the sweet bark of the cottonwood trees.
The high I.V. of boxelder in a point bar dominated by cottonwood is an example of such a combination.
In spring, fertilized aphid eggs hatch under the bark of a cottonwood tree.
A piece of cottonwood fluff brought low by the rain settles damply onto the hood of the truck.
Verne Huser steers his canoe past a cottonwood snag with the ease of a man who has paddled Western rivers for five decades.
Among the trees are Fremont cottonwood, lodgepole pine, narrowleaf willow, and quaking aspen.
We went in on a path where the cottonwood trees towered high above us and the leaves cast patterns of sunlight on the wood sorrel road.
The eerie squeal of a wood duck came from somewhere behind the gray tangle of naked oaks, willows cypress, elm, tupelo and cottonwood.
Select light and airy woods like white cedar, white pine, cottonwood, poplar, spruce or larch.
A bald eagle glides by en route to its evening roost on the branch of a cottonwood tree.
Nests are usually built in deciduous trees, such as aspen, alder, cottonwood, or willow, but they may also be in firs or other conifers.
Most are deciduous species such as maple, elm, willow, honeylocust, ash, cottonwood, Russian olive, and hackberry.
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The dogwood, oak, chestnut, pine, red maple, black locust, sassafras, hickory, willow, cottonwood, and redbud dotted the landscape.
The closest major one to the south is Swallow Canyon, which features a large cottonwood grove out on the bajada in front of it.
The female builds the nest on an outer branch of a small willow, alder, big-leafed maple, cottonwood, or other broadleaved tree or shrub.
A lone cottonwood on the plains might mark a hillside seep or a spot where the water table was within digging distance.
Plants that grow along the stream banks include alder, Fremont cottonwood, sycamore, honey mesquite, and Goodding willow.
Opposite the cottonwood, on the far bank, is a 40-foot undercut cliff that resembles the prow of a ship.
Both members of the pair excavate a hole in a decayed tree, typically a cottonwood or Ponderosa pine.
Floodplain forest is thick with green ash, American elm, sycamore, cottonwood, and silver maple, with box elder near the water's edge.
When I came back to myself, a woman's voice told us to meet her at the cottonwood out back at moonrise.
The tall cottonwood trees along the bluffs and in the shallows of the river swayed violently in the wind and several snapped in half.
Juniper trees are common throughout the canyon as well as mesquite, cottonwood, salt cedar, willow, western soapberry and hackberry.
More than anything, the prolifically seeding cottonwood needs flooding to prepare a fertile seedbed.
Selman's cottonwood recruitment has been beset by salt cedar invasion, deer browsing, and heavy grazing by cattle on lush bottomland grasses.
Lining Big Creek, the Collins River, Savage Creek, and their tributaries are cottonwood, sycamore, red maple, and sweet gum, along with mountain laurel and white rhododendron.
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.
The floodplains contained cottonwood, willow, box elder, and soft maple.
The adjacent habitat usually includes red alder, black elderberry, Scouler's willow, black cottonwood, red-osier dogwood, and yellow monkey flower.
They had built a square pen of rough cottonwood logs around the grave, and had marked the head and foot with a big flat stone, edged up, heaping up quite amound of stones to keep the animals away.
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.
We met under the shade of a cottonwood in a parking lot behind a baseball stadium.
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Native species include cottonwood, silver maple, large tooth aspen and red maple.
They had been feeding on a mule deer carcass just across the Virgin River to the west, in a long meadow among the cottonwood, box elder, and ash trees.
Vegetation includes the evergreen creosote bush, yucca, saltbush, burroweed, encelia, cottonwood, and mesquite.
It consisted primarily of oak, maple, and basswood, with ash, elm, cottonwood, and box elder along the stream valleys.
Nisga'a forests are blessed with an abundance of cedar, hemlock, Sitka spruce, lodgepole pine, balsam, and cottonwood.
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.
He proudly shows off some riverside land, silver with frost and sheltered by cottonwood and willow trees.
However, clearing the 30 mature cottonwood trees from the water's edge was a harmful alteration.
Other tree species represented are aspen, paper birch and balsam poplar or cottonwood.
Species include: ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, cottonwood, Saskatoonberry, snowberry, Oregon grape and willow.
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.
Today's excess of elk and buffalo have destroyed woody species such as willow, aspen, cottonwood, alder and serviceberry along the streams and rivers.
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.
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.
The second half is a mellow drift through a tunnel of cottonwood trees.
In waterside habitats in the eastern mountains, box elder and green ash grow with American elm, eastern cottonwood, red-osier dogwood, and Bebb willow.
The dominant vegetation is oak Carvallo, Tozo oak, pine and Galician, beech, alder, birch, ash, willow, poplar, cottonwood, oak, oak, heather, gorse and juniper, interspersed with ferns and permanent pastures green.
This accomplishment makes the black cottonwood, a type of poplar, the third plant species whose genome has been sequenced.
The presence of various trees and shrubs of the following main species is noted: Manitoba maple, cottonwood, willows, Norway maple and Tartarian honeysuckle.
The eastern forests of maple, sweet gum, hickory, oak, and pine change into the cottonwood, elm, hackberry, and blackjack and post oaks of the grasslands.
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Patches of scrubby aspen, willow, cottonwood, and box-elder occur to a limited extent on shaded slopes of valleys, on river terraces, and ringing nonsaline depressional sites covered with meadow grasses and sedges.
Principal tree and shrub species encountered in these specific areas include: cottonwood, red maple, large tooth aspen, blue spruce, white elm, crabapple tree, Russian olive, willows and Tartarian honeysuckle.
Over time, the native cottonwood and willow ecosystem was invaded by introduced Russian olive and saltcedar.
The forest is mostly made up of deciduous trees like Douglas maple, red alder, and black cottonwood, and coniferous trees, such as Douglas fir, western hemlock and western red cedar.
The important associates of western red cedar along the Pacific slope are Sitka spruce, western hemlock, Douglas-fir, grand and amabilis firs, Pacific yew, red alder, black cottonwood and bigleaf maple.
The Plateau people fashioned canoes from the area's pine and cottonwood, and traded copper, jadeite, and herbs to the coast Indians for otter pelts, oolichan oil and decorative baskets.
The trees are mostly silver maple, cottonwood, and black willow, plus green hawthorn and swamp cottonwood also present.
The main species observed in these areas include: Manitoba maple, silver maple, crack willow, weeping willow, red elm, cottonwood, white elm, black ash, American sumac and Tartarian honeysuckle.
The floodplain of the Upper Adams contains wetland species of deciduous trees such as black cottonwood as well as a dense layer of shrubs including black twinberry, red-osier dogwood, and thimbleberry.
Examples of this kind of wood are alder, basswood, birch, buckeye, maple, willow, and the Populus species such as aspen, cottonwood and poplar.
The litheness, the concentrated fierceness in the way his small hands grip the ruckled bark of the cottonwood.
Nowhere else are you likely to find a taller swamp cottonwood, winged elm, American holly, Carolina ash, American hornbeam, pawpaw, or possumhaw.
Native plants like Fremont cottonwood and seep willow have recolonized treated areas, and springs that were nearly sucked dry from tamarisk are returning to historical flows.
Fremont cottonwood and valley oak thrive in the Central Valley.
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I believe a windbreak is essential, and would make it of Osage orange, maple, or cottonwood.
The island is gone, the cottonwood is gone, the eagle and his mate are gone.
Margaret crossed the wash to the cottonwood under which her escort was lying.
Thirty years will do for a cottonwood what two centuries will do for an oak.
Then came the sidewalk, and the acequia, then a row of young cottonwood trees, then the parade ground.
Mrs. Wolf, will you have a hackberry plate, or do you prefer the scent of cottonwood?
The stream was wooded with cottonwood, box-elder, and cherry, with currant and serviceberry bushes.
The ceiba, cottonwood or silk-cotton tree, is a tree of beauty and size, and of very general growth.
A slackly rolled turban covered half his forehead, and he leaned with his back against a cottonwood scowling upon his judge.
The party stopped at the Lorain Ranch, near a cottonwood grove, and tried their prisoners without going into town.
A few green boughs of cottonwood are kept around the base of the medicine woman's tipi as a sign of its sanctity.
Black cottonwood and white fir are the principal woods used for pulp on the Pacific coast.
Then it was that the cottonwood skiffs betrayed their weaknesses.
One of his hands was caught in a bear trap fastened to a cottonwood.
Why not put it just at the foot of the ridge, at cottonwood Spring?
The dancing pavilion was put up near the Danish laundry, on a vacant lot surrounded by tall, arched cottonwood trees.
The rivers, in general, were skirted with willows and bitter cottonwood trees, and the prairies covered with wormwood.
The next day brought them to the banks of a beautiful little stream, running to the west, and fringed with groves of cottonwood and willow.
The banks were generally alluvial, and thickly grown with cottonwood trees, intermingled occasionally with ash and plum trees.
When a beaver chomps on a cottonwood, however, that strategy misfires.
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Meagher's University of Georgia research team spliced bacteria genes into cottonwood trees, enabling the trees to vaporize methylmercury into safer elemental mercury.
After the disappearance of the last wolf packs aspen and cottonwood trees went into long-term decline, to the point of virtual extinction in some areas.
