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Article: How sweet it is, or is it? Reports on the status of sugar maple in North America are bittersweet tales of growth and decline.
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- May 26, 1989
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HOW SWEET IT IS, OR IS IT? REPORTS ON THE STATUS OF SUGAR MAPLE IN
NORTH AMERICA ARE BITTERSWEET TALES OF GROWTH AND DECLINE
BROOMALL, Pa., May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Sugar maple trees in New England and New York are bigger and healthier according to one forest survey.
Another survey rated sugar maple one of the healthiest species of hardwoods in the Northeast. Yet, reports continue to surface about major sugar maple decline not only in the Northeastern United States, but in Canada as well.
According to Gerard Hertel, national program manager for the joint USDA/EPA Forest Response Program, an interagency research program that ...