Spring can be an exciting time to start getting outside after a long, cold winter in North Dakota. And what better reason than if there is sweet maple syrup as an end result? While we don’t have lush ...

GARRISON, N.D. (AP) - Soon, in North Dakota, the sap will start rising in the trees as they awaken from their long winter dormancy. Chad Trautman plans to divert some of that sap - a sugary liquid ...

GARRISON, N.D. | The manager of a North Dakota state park is tapping the park's box elder trees for sap and turning it into syrup. Chad Trautman with the Fort Stevenson State Park tells the Minot ...

You know spring is coming when the deer have dropped their antlers, the pussy willow buds pop and nature centers offer their annual maple syrup programs. On the first day of March, my family followed ...

Naturalist Kirk Dreier learned long ago that it takes more than just maple sap to make homemade maple syrup. As a teen-ager, he identified maple trees, drilled holes and collected sap. That was the ...