Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) is a deciduous tree also referred to as hard maple or rock maple. It is one of the largest and most important hardwood species in North America, typically reaching 70-90 ...
In Washington Mountain State Forest, those valley maples have a chance of going on and on — cooling the air, protecting the ...
But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the summer, which gets stored through the winter in their roots.
Each spring, students and staff from the Myaamia Center and students and staff from the Western Program tap ten sugar maple trees in Peabody Woods. Maple sugaring, the process of making maple sugar ...
So how exactly does The Maple Guild produce syrup on a macro scale? Well, it all starts with the trees. These are sugar maple trees, and The Maple Guild has 460,000 of them spanning across the ...