Learn about maple syrup production through these educational

Links

Cornell's extensive sugar maple site
http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/ext/maple/index.htm

The Ohio Small Farm Resource
maple production information page
http://www.farminfo.org/miscellaneous/maple-syrup-m.htm

Ohio State University Extension Service
North American Maple Syrup Producers Manual
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/b856/b856_81.html

Landscape Ecology
Graduate Paper, June, 1997
Restoring forest wilderness in Ohio
a bit off the subject, but establishes that maple is a native American tree
http://www.frognet.net/~hockingv/Paper2.htm

"You can make sweet syrup from other trees besides maple. You 
could also smother your pancakes with box elder, butternut, or 
birch syrup. But maple syrup is easier to make. It takes 40 gallons
of maple sap to make one gallon of maple syrup--but it takes 150 
gallons of birch sap to do the same thing." That's what it says at:
http://webpalice.simplenet.com/microft/fact/t.html