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

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 ...

State agriculture officials are still assessing the damage from last month’s once-in-a-lifetime ice storm in Northern ...

The maple syrup industry in northern Michigan is grappling with significant setbacks following a severe ice storm that caused ...

We're all trying to still get our feet under us and figure out what to do," one producer said, "because no one's seen this ...

But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree ... They would cut a gash in the tree and collect the sap in containers made of tree bark. All the sap ...

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 ...

"Trees will be tapped and sap will be flowing! Come see how it’s harvested, and then made into the delicious syrup you enjoy. You may also catch a glimpse of maple candy, maple cream, and maple sugar ...

the biggest White Pine—Michigan's state tree—and potential state champions, which are trees that may be the biggest of its type (for example, sugar maple). Participants may even get their tree ...

For a 60th year, join the staff at the Kalamazoo Nature Center for the Maple Sugar Festival. The event celebrates and ...