Though Wisconsin produced 402,000 gallons of maple syrup, sugar maple trees, sugarbush plants and the tapping season are facing a changing climate. “Climate change is real, and it is with us,” ...

They tap 15,000 maple trees in central Wisconsin and cook in the Sugar house. He says the weather this season has been fine ...

In addition to their lovely fall foliage, sugar maple (acer saccharum) is a critically important tree to the ecology of our forests, as well as to our regional Northern Appalachian heritage.

But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the summer, which gets stored through the winter in their roots.