March is maple syrup season in Wisconsin. The sugar maple tree and the history of maple sugaring is an important part of Wisconsin’s heritage. Genuine maple syrup follows a process of tapping trees ...

Winter's freakish warmth made for a somewhat skimpy maple sugar season, but it still produced mysteries. One sugar maple tree at Bendix Woods County Park in New Carlisle gave zero sap to boil into ...

These three maples have somewhat similar-looking leaves. On the surface, you may think this is simply an academic exercise. But if you care about invasive plants and local ecology, this distinction is ...

Eight years ago, Vince Portelli tapped a sugar maple tree on his brother-in-law’s property, brought the sap back to his Bloomingdale home, watched a YouTube video on how to make syrup, boiled the sap ...