But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the summer, which gets stored through the winter in their roots.

In Michigan, maple producers are facing partial or total tree crown loss in their sugar bushes. That crown is the engine of a ...

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 ...