Hard maple is a wonderful, expensive, nearly white wood used for almost every application imaginable both today and even prior to the colonization of the U.S. Uses include cabinets, furniture, bowls, ...

In North America, the maple species are divided into two groups: soft maple (which includes red maple, Acer rubrum, silver maple, A. saccharinum, and bigleaf maple, A. macrophyllum) and hard maple ...

For the first time ever, investigators used tree DNA as evidence in court—to help convict a wood poacher. In July 2021, Justin Andrew Wilke was convicted of conspiracy, theft of public property, ...

A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. Corey Snyder, a wood turner in ...

The blazing fire that tore through Washington state’s Olympic National Forest in 2018 scorched 3,300 acres of land and destroyed dozens of valuable bigleaf maple trees. Amid the wreckage were ...

Each week, the Intro to Trees of Indiana web series will offer a sneak peek at one species from the book, paired with an ID That Tree video from Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee to help ...