Eric:

I fought a 70 foot cottonwood for about a year. It was green, 8 feet in diameter with a rootball on it the size of a Camry...and it still floated. Finally settled where it wanted to be last fall. Pond started filling 11/03...

Pond guy says..."it won't float...too green and heavy. 'Sides, that root ball with anchor it..."

Riiiight...at least it ended up in a cool location.

In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times. My wife figures I'm due to die any day now...