51�Թ�

Old growth forests of sugar maple, birch and hemlock towered over our tents, cushioned our trails with pine needles and scented our days.

The key to the project is utilizing some underdog trees that are not in the same class as the sugar maples typical of Vermont.

In the northern broadleaf forests of the U.S. and Canada, alien earthworms' impact on soil stresses trees such as sugar maples by altering the microhabitat of their soils.

Additionally, short, cold days prompt some tree species, including red and sugar maples, to produce red anthocyanins.

This nest, high in a sugar maple in the hospital’s courtyard, was massive—and looked like metal.