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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Knowing Our Maples
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:09
	Publish Date:		2018-05-08 08:35:00
	Description:		In this month's installment of Field Notes Scott Bowe of Kemp Station discusses Wisconsin’s maples and how they are used in homes and schools. Wisconsin has seven native maple trees and many more non-native ornamental maples, with some of these considered invasive. We all know the sugar maple, our state tree, but the others are less well known. Let’s look at Wisconsin’s maples and how they are used in our daily lives. I’ve already mentioned sugar maple, Acer saccharum . Our state tree and most abundant tree species by volume in all of Wisconsin, boasting 2.8 billion cubic feet in live trees. Sugar maple is popular in sugar bushes around the state. It’s not the only maple that can be tapped for maple syrup production, but it does have the highest sap sugar content of our native maples. From a production perspective, sugar maple is called hard maple in the hardwood lumber industry. It is hard and dense, equal to red oak in density. Hard maple has a diffuse porous cell structure, which
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