[JockoManning]

Agreed. When the big bucks folks bought the 'bottom land'--river bottom--they cut down a lot of the cottonwoods willy-nilly. Making no use of the merit in cutting down all the cotton producing ones. Dumb.

I forget--I think it's salt cedar that soaks up so much water in the Southwest. Cottonwoods do fair at that, too, IIRC.

[Publius]

Cedars, mesquite and cottonwoods are notorious water hogs.

[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