When you live a long time with trees, they become a part of you. So it pained me to take down the old sugar maple, my arboreal cathedral, one rafter at a time, her demise not from flames but an ...

Sap is around 98% water and 2% sugar.” “We take advantage of this process in the making of maple syrup,” said Whitenack. “We tap the tree using a drill and then we insert a maple tap.

A beloved sugar maple tree at Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park is slowly dying and will be cut down to make way for new trees next spring. The tree, estimated to be 100 years ...

Northeast Ohio is known to have many maple trees that produce local maple syrup. James Miller owns and operates Sugar Valley Maple Farms in Middlefield, where there are 3,100 maple taps.