The Cottonwood Tree - grows 40 to 80 feet in height and has a broad open crown of widely spreading branches. Cottonwoods are widely grown for timber production along wet river banks, where their exceptional growth rate provides a large crop of wood within just 10-30 years. The wood is coarse and of fairly low value, used for pallet boxes, shipping crates and similar, where a coarse but cheap and strong wood is suitable. Cottonwoods are not limited to wet river banks, but will also grow wherever there is wet soil. During the fall their leaves turn to a beautiful golden color, and as you can see in the photo above, they add much beauty to the picturesque landscape of the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.

"Seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter" will never cease while the earth endures.
Genesis 8:22

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