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Hard maple is a wonderful, expensive, nearly white wood used for almost every application imaginable both today and even prior to the colonization of the U.S. Uses include cabinets, furniture, bowls, ...

The story of a 500-year-old maple tree is more than just about wood — it’s about history preserved in nature. Each growth ring represents centuries of changing seasons, storms survived, and sunlight ...

What starts as a routine log rescue turns into one of the most painful sawmill days yet when a massive sugar maple pushes the ...

In the late winter months, when nighttime and daytime temperatures oscillate from deep-freezing to above-freezing, an imperceptible shift begins to take place in the trees around us. This huge ...

AMOR, Minn. — Hundreds of gallons of maple tree sap sat chilling in 55-gallon barrels at Lindentree Farm on Saturday, March 22, near Amor. With temperatures dipping to 11 degrees early that morning, ...

A. Heat does indeed make the wood plastic, which is what we need in order to bend wood and have it maintain its bent shape.

The maple trees in your backyard are no less loaded with sap than any of the thousands of maple trees being tapped right now on maple farms across much of Pennsylvania and in states and Canadian ...

Professional wood carver Ted Travers spent Tuesday afternoon turning an ordinary maple tree into a masterpiece. Chainsaw in hand, Travers carefully chipped away at the wood at a residence in ...

Experts say sap needs to be boiled until it becomes 66% sugar to make maple syrup, a process that can take anywhere from 8 to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. clarst5 via Shutterstock We love the vibrant colors of maple trees in the fall. These deciduous beauties bring not only great ...

Moorhead - The box elder may be the Rodney Dangerfield of the tree world. Dismissed for its irregular form, weak wood and association with box elder bugs, the lowly tree gets no respect. But the ...