Maple sap is heated in a large pan to evaporate water and make maple syrup in this file photo. Michigan's maple syrup industry will likely lose 25%, about 50,000 gallons, of annual production this ...

A historic ice storm in late March downed millions of trees across Northern Michigan, obliterating untold sums of lumber.

Bill Sterrett stands on his 40-acre woodlot north of Gaylord. The area was one of the hardest-hit by the ice storm in late March. Sterrett had been managing the woods for timber since 1989. He ...

Dale Forrester has made maple syrup all his life. Over three days, two weeks ago, Mother Nature tried to take that all away. The historic ice storm that clobbered northern Michigan from March 28 to 30 ...

Participants at last week’s annual Michigan Society of American Foresters conference in Bellaire discussed how bark and ...

You’re talking thousands of acres of damage, hundreds of miles of tubing destroyed,” said Joshua Chamberlain, owner of The Maple Tree in East Jordan. “We estimate Northern Michigan lost at least ...

One of the oldest crops in North America was being harvested this month a few miles up the Minnesota River from New Ulm. Fred ...

Production from one of the nation’s largest maple syrup-producing states will likely be cut by at least a third after ...

Making maple syrup in New England’s fickle spring weather can be an unpredictable business. Now President Donald Trump’s ever ...

EMMET COUNTY — The ice storm is still having an impact on northern Michiganders almost 2 weeks later. Maple tree farms are ...

Michigan basketball is back in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2022. The Wolverines took down UC San Diego in a close game on Thursday, and then helped the Big Ten stay perfect up in the ...