There were six people inside the cottage at the time, none of them were hurt. “I was on the front steps, soon as we heard the big collapse, we tried to make it in,” Priester told News 4.

The biggest Michigan trees recorded in the most recent Big Tree Hunt, which ended in 2022, were both cottonwoods: A tree with a 308-inch circumference discovered by youth hunter Aidan Presnell in ...

Each year the Department of Environmental Protection’s Forest Service receives about 25 to 200 tree nominations. Many of New Jersey’s big trees have been found in residents’ backyards.