Every year, self-described tree nerds try to find the biggest trees in Nebraska. The top contenders end up on the state’s Champion Tree Register ...
KOLN on MSN: This Day in History - April 23: Cottonwood named Nebraska State Tree
This Day in History - April 23: Cottonwood named Nebraska State Tree
Nebraska TV: Nebraska NRDs mark Arbor Day with tree planting at State Capitol alongside officials
Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts marked Arbor Day with a ceremonial tree planting on the grounds of the Nebraska State Capitol, highlighting decades of co ...
Nebraska NRDs mark Arbor Day with tree planting at State Capitol alongside officials
In 1886 J. Sterling Morton urged the Nebraska State Historical Society to create an arboreal bureau to track tree planting and its climatic effects.
KOLN: ‘Not an easy place to be a tree’: The hunt for Nebraska’s biggest trees
‘Not an easy place to be a tree’: The hunt for Nebraska’s biggest trees
In Nebraska trees do more than grow, they tell stories. Near the Calamus Reservoir, a stand of trees forms the words “Sostad Forest.” Outside of Rose, a grove of cedars spell “Caskey.” Families like ...
LINCOLN, Neb. (KTIV) - PlantNebraska has launched the PlantNebraska Disaster Recovery Fund, which will provide free trees to Nebraska homeowners who have been impacted by the wildfires and other ...
Several early landmarks were cottonwood trees and many Native American tribes also considered the cottonwood sacred.
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...