McLeod has become intensely interested in how to better grow the West Coast's native bigleaf maple tree — because he's started tapping them by the hundreds for his boutique syrup business ...

Additionally, other trees from campus are sometimes used for wood chips around campus, but the big leaf maple is too diseased to use for even that. “It’s very sad but this tree has been really ...

Additionally, other trees from campus are sometimes used for wood chips around campus, but the big leaf maple is too diseased to use for even that. “It’s very sad but this tree has been really ...

Bigleaf maples, Washington’s largest and second most common hardwood tree, is experiencing a massive dieoff across the state, from Tacoma to the Hoh Rainforest. Scientists have been studying the ...

A 100-year-old big leaf maple tree will be removed from the Washington state Capitol Campus on Friday. The Department of Enterprise Services said in a news release that the 60-foot-tall tree with ...

Something is killing bigleaf maples — Washington’s biggest broadleaf tree — and scientists can’t stop it. They don’t even know what’s causing it.