Tag: Tree health

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Afforestation

Learn how to manage open areas returning to forest cover.

Date:
February 21, 2021

Forest Connect

A collection of videos on sugarbush management and sap production.

Date:
October 29, 2020

Sustainable Tapping

Investigating how to best tap trees for long-term forest health and sustainable maple production.

Date:
October 22, 2020

Do Invasive Worms Threaten Northeast Maple Forests?

Some maple producers have reported low sugar maple regeneration that could be related to the presence of worms. This second wave of invasion by Asian earthworms is of concern to forest ecologists because of its potential disruption to the forest.

Publication:
Maple Syrup Digest
Date:
February 1, 2018

Soil Base Saturation Combines with Beech Bark Disease to Influence Composition and Structure of Sugar Maple-Beech Forests in an Acid Rain-Impacted Region

Sugar maple, an abundant and highly valued tree species in eastern North America, has experienced decline from soil calcium (Ca) depletion by acidic deposition, while beech, which often coexists with sugar maple, has been afflicted with beech bark disease (BBD) over the same period. To investigate how variations in soil base saturation combine with effects of BBD in influencing stand composition and structure, measurements of soils, canopy, subcanopy, and seedlings were taken in 21 watersheds in the Adirondack region of NY (USA), where sugar maple and beech were the predominant canopy species and base saturation of the upper B horizon ranged from 4.4 to 67%.

Publication:
Ecosystems
Date:
September 18, 2017