Sap Yields and Tapping Stained Wood
The effects of tapping on trees, and how to avoid overtapping.
Tag: Tree health
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Forestry and Maple Discussion
The importance of managing your woods well for long-term syrup production.
Sustainable Tapping
Investigating how to best tap trees for long-term forest health and sustainable maple production.
Isselhardt Silvicultural Considerations for Sugarbush
How to best manage your woodlands for maple production.
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.
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%.
Maple Watch Continues Biochemical Research in New Hampshire
Maple Watch is studying sap to investigate environmental impacts of climate change on sugar maples.
Acid Rain and Sugar Maple Decline
Through the increased combustion of fossil fuels, humans have dramatically increased pollutant additions of sulfur and nitrogen into the atmosphere wher eit combines with water to form sulfuric and nitric acids, creating acid rain. This article investigates the impact of this issue on sugarbush health.
Managing for a Healthy Sugarbush in a Changing Climate
Severe and extreme weather has significant impacts on sugar maples. This article discusses how to look for signs of stress, and how to manage sugarbushes for resilience.
Growth and Tree Rings: Responses of Northern Forests to Drought (emphasis on Sugar Maple)
Slides from a presentation on how sugar maples adapt to drought and other effects of climate change.