AUBURNDALE, Wis. (WSAW) --- Students at Auburndale Middle/High School learn maple tree tapping in their school forest as part of their Agriculture class in what the teacher says is a decent maple sap ...

Sugar maple is a northerly species that is found in northwest Frederick County at higher elevations on cooler, north-facing slopes. This tree prefers deep, moist, well-drained soils and is found ...

BRAINERD — The sap flow this season was at a crawl thanks to a late and unusual spring at Brainerd’s Clayhill Farm and Forest. In partnership with Northland Arboretum, Judy and Harry Worm, owners of ...

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 trees as maple syrup season kicks off. The College's ...

Celebrate all things maple, along with some milestone anniversaries, at the Forest Preserve District of Kane County’s Maple Sugaring Days event from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 1-2, at ...

Joe Quick of St. Charles, along with his wife and children, elected to enjoy a family outing the first weekend in March by visiting the LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve in St. Charles on Sunday for the ...

Indigenous people tapped maple trees for centuries, but the warming climate is changing sugar season Warming temperatures and extreme weather stresses the maple trees Syrup producers are taking steps ...

MOUNT WASHINGTON — A forest scientist says that a stand of sugar maples in an area slated for logging by the state should be “defended” for its climate-cooling features. Lee E. Frelich, director of ...

He taught us to recognize the diamond pattern on hickory bark and reminded us to check whether branches were opposite or ...

Red maples are great to look at in the fall -- leaves can turn vibrant yellow, red, orange or purple. So what if we look more like Vermont, you say? Turkeys, ruffed grouse, deer, squirrels, mice and ...