Long-lived hardwoods, some maple trees in North America are over 300 years old. Red maples, however, have an average lifespan of 80 to 100 years, ... Sugar maple tree with fall foliage in Vermont.

Maple syrup is a natural forest food product and, for the most part, only produced in temperate North American woodlands. More specifically, the sugary sap is mostly collected from the sugar maple ...

Jethro Heiko and his family moved from downtown Philadelphia to East Oak Lane, a leafy neighborhood on the city’s north side, in 2018. They loved the novelty of having a backyard full of trees ...

The red maple is growing in popularity and is often stronger than its sibling, the sugar maple. “Maple is a relatively clean tree, with strong branches that do not break off easily in high winds.

Native Americans of northeastern North America have been harvesting maple sap and boiling it into syrup and sugar for many centuries. Various tribes have legends of how this sweet bounty of the ...

Maple trees need warm, sunny days and freezing nights for sap production. And because of the record temperatures we’ve seen lately, the sap is flowing earlier this year than in the past.