Eric Bartkowski, an educational assistant, works on the fire in the evaporator during a maple sugaring demonstration at the Great Swamp Outdoor Education in Chatham. Participants learned how to ...

Many varieties of the majestic maple tree can bring benefits to your yard, but be warned: One particular type could cause you ...

Red maple is also known as swamp maple because it can thrive in wet areas, while sugar maple cannot tolerate these conditions. I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows… glorious in autumn, a ...

Mountain Lakes, NJ residents Mikayla, 9, Hailey, 6, and Courtney Fallon join Danika, 10, Serena, 5, and Trina Kincey for a taste-test different delicious syrups, including syrup made at the Great ...

Native red maple trees burst into flower in April, gloriously announcing the arrival of spring with their fluffy red blossoms high in the treetops. Red maple, sometimes called swamp maple, is the most ...

The volunteers tromped through the marsh, trying to avoid patches of brackish, black mud that threatened to engulf their shoes if they weren’t careful. In each hand, they carried spindly red swamp ...

LAKELAND | The chances of finding a large, ancient pine or cypress tree in the Green Swamp is slight because few of the prime trees that still stood last century escaped the axe or saw. But deep in ...

Maples are great all over the country. From bigleaf maple on the west coast to Norway and sugar maples up north, to swamp maple and box elder down here, it is hard to go anywhere there are tress and ...

Throughout October, one life form in these parts satisfies more than all others. It is the red maple — your red maple, my red maple, the one down the road. It is the red maple of lowland swamps and ...