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Traverse City Landmark Coming Down Soon

By Art Bukowski | July 1, 2025

One of Traverse City’s natural landmarks will soon be gone.

A very large cottonwood tree that sits at the mouth of the Boardman River is now mostly dead and will be cut down sometime in the near future, city officials say. Crews already removed a large section of the tree last year, and despite hopes that the rest of the tree would survive for a while longer, this summer brought bad news.

“We hired a company to come in and take out the big dead section last year because it was pretty unsightly, and we could have decided then it was time to take the whole thing down, but we …

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