Keep your maples healthy & hearty by learning to recognize common maple tree diseases & knowing how to prevent or treat them ...

Unlike most trees, maple wood contains fiber cells which are partly filled with carbon dioxide gas. This is key to generating flow because it dissolves in sap.

Poachers target maple trees for their 'figured' wood. Law seeks to halt theft of timber used in fiddles, guitars. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS May 30, 2005.

The maple-tapping season as a whole is subject to location and has different parameters depending on your location, changing the further north you travel, notes Wheeler Munroe, who has been ...

This is why many large maple logs are all white wood; the formation of the brown heartwood has not started. On the other hand, within 5 to 10 years, oak, walnut and cherry begin the conversion.

It’s not clear how tree burls form. Theories include physical damage, fungus or a virus. The raw, unfinished wood from a burl can fetch between 10 cents and $6 a pound, depending on its quality.

It produces sap in the spring but only a third as strong as sap from sugar maple trees. It isn't prized for its wood, probably another reason it's so common.

The silver maple is sometime recommended and planted when a fast-growing shade tree is desired. But the silver maple tends to be short-lived in our area, the wood is brittle and prone to breakage ...