Saskatchewan's largest tree is a very old and stately cottonwood growing at David Ferry, on the North Saskatchewan River due east of the lake.
This monster has a circumference of nearly 5 meters. It's actually a natural hybrid of plains cottonwood and balsam popular, and is the last and largest of a stand that was young long before the first white settlers arrived in the area. Doukabours settlers, fleeing religious persecution in Czarist Russia, were awed by the big cottonwoods, and made temporary homes in caves cut out of the river bank nearby. The tree is accessible along the "tree road", which runs east from Route 12, about 10 km south of the town of Blaine Lake.
