NPR

Bigleaf Maple Syrup Flows As Profits Drip From Once-Maligned Northwest Tree

There's probably more written on how to kill a bigleaf maple tree than how to grow one, according to Neil McLeod of Neil's Bigleaf Maple Syrup, a farm in the tiny northwestern Washington burg of Acme.
The Olympian

What’s killing the Northwest’s bigleaf maples? Scientists think they’ve found the answer

Climate change is the culprit behind the increasing deaths of bigleaf maples in Washington and across the Pacific Northwest. That’s the conclusion of University of Washington researchers and ...
Seattle Magazine

This Washington Farm is Bringing the Maple Syrup Industry to the West Coast

This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Most of us have spent a lifetime enjoying maple syrup—poured over pancakes, pooled beneath strips of crispy bacon—but ...
Tri-City Herald

Some of Washington’s biggest trees are dying and scientists don’t know why

The leaves of this bigleaf maple at Point Defiance Park show sings of leaf scorch, one sign of the die-back affecting the species throughout the Pacific Northwest. Craig Sailor ...