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Susan Koch lives in Iowa City. She and her husband, Dennis, farm and raise Angus cattle in Muscatine Country. Autumn on our Muscatine County farm provides a medley of sensory experiences. The sweet ...

An eagle nest in a cottonwood tree on the Cold River. Have you ever walked or paddled along a riverbank, and noticed a towering tree with deeply-furrowed gray bark and huge bright green leaves that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees are smarter than you think, and the evidence is found in their unique ways they disperse their seeds. Cottonwood trees ...

AMES, Iowa – Money doesn’t grow on trees, but electricity might someday. Iowa State University scientists have built a device that mimics the branches and leaves of a cottonwood tree and generates ...

If trees could talk, we have a cottonwood that would keep us enthralled for years. When we moved to this farm, it was ...