Article: Tapping time: Love real maple syrup. See it in the making in Pennsylvania.

Byline: Diane Stoneback

Feb. 18--Although snow muffles most sounds in the woods, one stands out and still is heard despite the wintry coating that makes evergreen boughs sag and blankets the forest floor in powdery white. It's the steady "plop" of sap droplets filling metal collection buckets in stands of sugar maple trees that are alternately warmed by the sun and frozen again at night after being tapped at maple sugaring time.

But this scene and these sounds are not in Vermont. They're to be experienced in Pennsylvania's forests (generally north of Route 80) as well as in the more southerly Somerset and Bedford counties, where higher altitudes ...

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