Forget groundhogs. One of the surefire signs of spring is maple sugaring — the time-honored tradition of tapping maple trees to collect sap that can then be boiled down to make maple syrup. &… ...

anna berry/forest society The Forest Society has a handful of maple leases on its 190,000 acres of protected land across the state, ranging in size from 100 taps to 6,000 taps.

Tapping maple trees for syrup may change. As climate change alters when the sap flows, ... and they’re dropping out of the forest and weakening entire ecosystems,” said Andy Finton, ...

The bottom line: Research may show that it could take another 80 years for the demise of sugar maple trees to occur, but stocking up on maple syrup now will protect against dry pancakes in the future.

Tap into Maple Syrup at Heiberg Forest. 03/03/2021. That tap, tap, tapping you hear in ESF's Heiberg Forest isn't woodpeckers looking for insects in trees, it's the forest properties crew tapping ...

Along with a decline in crop or tree diversity, the diversity and abundance of birds decrease when, as in the case of maple monocultures, sugar maple trees exceed 75% of a forest.

This tree prefers deep, moist, well-drained soils and is found Nature Notes: Sugar maple trees are at home in the forest or backyards | Travel And Outdoors | fredericknewspost.com Skip to main content ...

The Auburndale School Forest is currently filled with tree taps and lines collecting sap from maple trees around the land. On school days, students come out to the forest to check on the older ...

Participants work to drill holes in logs like what is done when maple tree sap is collected during Maple Sugaring Days at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve in St. Charles on Sunday.

He said researchers had created a bigleaf maple database of more than 1,100 tree samples, covering a region “basically from the U.S.-Mexico border all the way up to Vancouver Island and Canada.” ...

The UK Cooperative Extension Service, in collaboration with the Kentucky Maple Syrup Association, Kentucky Division of Forestry and the U.S. Forest Service will host offseason workshops on tree ...