Chuck Bell says tall trees were both a blessing and a curse to early pioneers and farmers

Though the settlers used trees for shelter, barns, fences and heat, they saw trees as one of their greatest enemies when it ...
House Digest on MSN

The Maple Tree Varieties To Plant In Fall For A Lifetime Of Spring Shade

There are lots of unique species of maple trees that can provide many years of shade. With so many options, there's a perfect ...
PBS

Activists tap a sweet Indigenous tradition to connect youth of color in Detroit with the outdoors

DETROIT — Tucked into Detroit’s 1,200 acre Rouge Park is one of the nation’s largest urban sugar maple tree groves in the country. But for years, the trees went unharvested. While making syrup from ...
The New York Times

A Fading Tree, Once Majestic, Had to Come Down. But It Wasn’t the End.

A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. Corey Snyder, a wood turner in ...
The News-Messenger

Master Gardener: Future of sugar maples

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 ...
WSAZ

Sugar maple tree planted on state capitol grounds

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A symbol of the Mountain State was just planted on the State Capitol grounds in Charleston. This Sugar maple tree will replace an aging oak that was damaged by storms in the ...
SFGate

How the largest pine tree in the world was discovered in Yosemite

In August of this year, three researchers made a stunning discovery: The world’s largest sugar pine, by volume, was in Yosemite National Park. The discovery marked the end of a four-decade journey, ...