Sugarbush Management Videos
This collection of 13 videos from UVM Proctor Maple Research Center includes topics ranging from invasives to regeneration to culverts.
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Sugarbush Rental Rates
How to calculate the value of rented sugarbush
Sugarbush Water Quality & AMPs
Understanding how roads and water interact in the sugarbush is important for many reasons. Dave Wilcox, Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation Watershed Forester, provides a clear understanding of how acceptable management practices (AMPs) used in timber harvesting can help improve water quality, reduce erosion, and keep access to the sugarhouse open.
Sustainable Tapping
Investigating how to best tap trees for long-term forest health and sustainable maple production.
Sustainable Tapping
How to tap trees for long-term forest health and sustainable production.
Tap Below Lateral
How producers can effectively set taps below the lateral line.
Taphole Staining and Sap Yields
The compartmentalization (walling off) process in maple trees and how it affects how to tap for maple syrup production.
Tapping Below the Lateral Line for High Maple Sap Yield
Maple producers sometimes have a difficult time locating areas on the tree that will produce unstained wood and good sap yields. This video suggests approaches maple producers using vacuum can take to counter this problem.
Tapping Maple Trees for High Sap Yield
Best management practices to achieve high sap yields when tapping maple trees.
Thinning Your Sugarbush for Sap & Tree Health
Thinning is a specific woodlot management practice to concentrate growth on the most desirable trees. Peter Smallidge, Senior Extension Associate with Cornell University’s Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, reviews the benefits of thinning, how to know if you should thin your sugarbush, potential problems from thinning, and reviews research about how thinning in sugarbushes affects health, tapping options, and production.