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Silver Maple

Post author By Gavan
Post date March 13, 2010
Categories In Apartment
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As reported in The Toronto Star ((And incorrectly identified as an Oak)), a large Silver Maple that was growing just to the south of our apartment building was cut down during the day on Thursday. I returned home at 12 to the sound of chainsaws and the majority of the limbs removed from the tree. […]

The City’s wrong to ban tapping Norway Maples for sap

Post author By Gavan
Post date February 23, 2010
Categories In Nature
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photo credit: jnthnhys The Toronto Star is reporting that a local plan to tap Norway Maples (Acer platanoides) this spring, collect sap and boil it down into maple syrup has hit a snag (no pun intended) with the proposal to tap the Norway Maples found in city parks: Toronto’s urban forestry department believes that tapping […]