So it pained me to take down the old sugar maple, my arboreal cathedral ... where two branches met and the tree’s growth pattern changed. One has light streaks of green because of mineral ...

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 ...

Some sugar maple trees can grow up to 150 feet tall ... some maple trees in North America are over 300 years old. Red maples, however, have an average lifespan of 80 to 100 years, while certain ...

The seed or fruit of sugar maple is a winged seed which occurs in pairs and turned from green to brown when mature. Sugar maples grow 60 to 75 feet tall and can be 40 to 50 feet wide, providing ...

old-growth stands generally lack these species while in second-growth stands these species are common. The ground is usually covered by leaf litter. Understory vegetation is likely to include a ...

Aaron Wightman was almost born in a sugarhouse.It was early April, and his parents were boiling maple sap in the Western New ...

In the Adirondacks, where the eastern chipmunk occurs at elevations to 1220 m (4000 ft), it prefers deciduous and mixed forests, and is most abundant in mature (old-growth) hardwoods containing sugar ...

Most worthy of note are the old-growth stands—more than 350 years old—as well as some pure sugar-maple stands found only in the northern part of this species’ range. • Water World The park ...

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources state parks director John Hallas celebrated the induction of Erie Bluffs State Park in Erie County into the national Old-Growth Forest ...

The Eagle's Lauren Stevens takes you along the footpath named by and for legendary poet William Cullen Bryant.

Going leaf peeping this fall? Here are some of the best locations to catch the leaves in all their red, orange and golden ...

Another popular natural sweetener, maple syrup, has claimed its place atop many pancakes. If you're cutting back on sugar, you may want to skip the pancakes but hang on to the syrup, which is ...