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Trees - Lanceleaf Cottonwood
 
Lanceleaf Cottonwood - Populus x acuminata
NPS Photo by Jim Pisarowicz
Lanceleaf Cottonwood - Populus x acuminata
 
Lanceleaf Cottonwood grows along streams.  It reproduces by root suckers and by the rooting of branches buried in wet soil.
Shell-leaf Penstemon
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Bull Elk  

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Elk were the most widely distributed member of the deer family in North America and spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Mexico to northern Alberta. Elk began to disappear in the eastern United States in the early 1800s.
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