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Red oak seedling one year after harvest

One Year After the Hope Forest Timber Harvest

September 15, 2015

Encouraging results after a fall 2014 seed tree cut

Random Thoughts While Waiting for the Sap to Run

Jack Savage | March 30, 2015

Sugarmakers are all wondering what this extraordinary winter will mean to this year’s maple syrup production. In central New Hampshire, I have historically tapped the trees for my modest hobby operation by President’s Day weekend in February, often enjoying a good run that week. This year, other than a few meager drips echoing on the bottom of my old-school buckets, there hadn’t been a real good run by March 24. Contrast that to a few years ago when spring came so fast that I was all done by March 18.