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“Heard him tell the girl in the picture called ‘War of the Wildcats’ that he would build her a house ‘at the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow.’

Tall cottonwood trees and willows enveloped the riverbanks in cool shade and swallows soared among the branches.

And she has analyzed how different types of trees, including willows, cottonwoods and oaks, fare when water levels fall depending on the depth of their roots.

There is a grand old cottonwood tree that rises up from the edge of the Kirkland urban buffer behind my house.

Hiking through the Wishbone area last summer, advocates noted cedar, hemlock, maple, cottonwood and alder trees, as well as huckleberries, gooseberries and devil’s club plants.