Red maples are popular landscape trees but are considered invasive ... Restricted to the Pacific Coast, the bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) is the most massive of North American maples.

JAPANESE LACELEAF maples (Acer palmatum var. ‘Dissectum’) are among the loveliest trees in the Puget Sound region. These gorgeous trees thrive in our climate, and their graceful, cascading ...

They’ve done samples on trees that have been tapped thousands of times on the East Coast, and it hasn’t led to anything showing that it disrupts its ability to live a long, healthy life. How is ...

Our dependence on the maple tree has given me a new appreciation ... Reach her at valeaston@comcast.net.Benjamin Benschneider is a Pacific NW magazine staff photographer.

It’s also prolific. It’s the second most abundant hardwood tree — after alder — in the Pacific Northwest. The maple’s native range stretches from Northern California into British Columbia.

Some old-school growers refer to maples as a “trash tree,” even though ... produces very watery sap. So maple syrup is much more expensive to produce in the Pacific Northwest.

Pacific Northwest farmers are now tapping the bigleaf maple, often denigrated as a trash tree, to create what Eliza Nelson, Executive Director of the Oregon Maple Project, calls “the espresso of ...