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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Tapping Maple Trees? Must Be Springtime
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2018-04-05 10:40:52
	Description:		There are many different signals that spring has arrived. In today’s episode of Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist talks about a regional favorite—sugaring. Tapping maple trees, or sugaring, is a popular pastime for many folks, an important way of life or means of income for others. Humans are not the only woodland creatures that crave the sugars in the sap. Squirrels, porcupines, and a kind of woodpecker known as a sapsucker are all known to carve bark off of maple trees to access the sap underneath. Humans have very little patience for these sap-nabbers who do their own sugaring but think nothing of people collecting sap to cook up and put on pancakes. After a long hard winter of eating whatever frozen food you can find, who can fault an animal or bird for helping themselves to a sweet treat? I am not an expert on the sugaring process; on the surface, it seems pretty straightforward. Basically, when the weather conditions are just right, you hammer a spout (called a spile ) into
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