The Environment Envir. History Maple trees are decked out with buckets and tubing.
Nights are cold, but the promise of Spring warms the days.
The sap is running, collected, and processed into pure maple syrup. Maple syrup production is unique to North America, more specifically southeastern Canada and northeastern United States. Sugar Maples and the right climate only exist within a 700 mile radius of the Great Lakes. Native Americans taught the colonial settlers about the sweet secret of the maple trees and how to get it. Written references to maple syrup made by colonists date back to 1609.