[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

You can cut them down in a neighborhood, and that makes sense, but there is a whole lot of country for them to reproduce at will!

Here is something from the Arbor day foundation about cottonwoods.

https://www.arborday.org/programs/nationaltreecottonwood.cfm

[buffaloguy]

Cottonwood is used for light skids and very fast black powder.