A maple sapling cut off and fitted with a system to collect sap. Photo by Sally McCay/UVM. Tim Perkins, Proctor Center director and one of the lead researchers who made the discovery, said the ...

The research suggests maple saplings can be grown from seedling to productive size in less than a decade — making such an operation comparable to Christmas tree farms, which not too many decades ...

A recent scientific discovery, however, means that forests of mature trees could be replaced by fields of dense saplings, much like the row crops of Big Ag. No longer would maple syrup be a ...

Finally, the sapling system is unappealing to the voracious Asian longhorn beetle, an invasive species that threaten to devastate the maple forests of North America. The beetles have been found in ...

Hardwood forests not regenerating as deer eat maple saplings, Michigan study shows. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 20, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 05 / 110510161809.htm ...

The researchers tested the discovery on maple saplings growing near their lab, Sorkin tells NPR's Rachel Martin. They lopped off the tops, capped them with a tube and put them under vacuum pressure.

Maple seeds flooding your yard? Here's why and easy tips on coping. ... Maple seedlings will try to establish themselves in garden beds or ground cover; don't let them.

There it is, at the edge of my yard, struggling. It’s only one, maybe two feet tall, with a single pair of leaves—a baby maple sapling, so skinny, so fragile, and yet… little plants get help ...

LOWELL —Perhaps it was a squirrel that dropped a maple acorn into the stump of the historic Pow-Wow Oak tree on Clark Road. Or maybe it was “a guardian angel,” said George Koumantzelis ...

Sugar maple saplings can out-produce mature trees by an order of magnitude. A plantation-style crop of 6,000 saplings can produce 400 gallons of syrup per acre, while a mature sugarbush of 80 mature ...