BROWNSVILLE — Jeff Rupert was looking for a gusher. Like an oil prospector seeking his next strike, the Illahee resident was scanning a grove of bigleaf maples near a creek when he spotted a mossy, ...
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.