Stockton University is using $1 million in federal grants to explore whether a viable syrup industry can be created using a species of maple tree common to southern N.J. Ryan Hegarty, assistant ...

Maple sugar season is underway in northern Ohio and the future of the sugar maple (acer saccharum) may be in question. Forest or sugar bush maple trees are the source of maple sugar sap used to ...

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 ...

Ryan Hegarty, assistant director of Stockton University's Maple Project, toiches a tap he just placed into a red maple tree at the university's Galloway, N.J. campus on Feb. 21, 2024. The university ...