HAMLIN TOWNSHIP, MI – Sugar maple. Red maple. Silver maple. What’s the difference? Those three maple species are part of the “tree identification pathway” at Ludington State Park, near Ludington. This ...

Maple sugar season is underway in northern Ohio and the future of the sugar maple (acer saccharum) may be in question. Forest or sugar bush maple trees are the source of maple sugar sap used to ...

These three maples have somewhat similar-looking leaves. On the surface, you may think this is simply an academic exercise. But if you care about invasive plants and local ecology, this distinction is ...

There are plenty of places to get in on the sweet tradition of turning maple-tree sap into syrup in southeastern Wisconsin ...

Don’t be a sap. Tap your maple trees and get that syrup. Spring is right around the corner, so that sweet sorghum is ready to flow. What’s better on pancakes than maple syrup, especially when it comes ...

Winter's freakish warmth made for a somewhat skimpy maple sugar season, but it still produced mysteries. One sugar maple tree at Bendix Woods County Park in New Carlisle gave zero sap to boil into ...