Upon acquiring the facility in 1999, the producer preserved large redwood and
big-leaf maple trees and designated about 6,500 sq.
While Quebec supplies the bulk of the world's demand for traditional maple syrup, entrepreneurs are tapping into new species, including birch and BC's
big-leaf maple.
Since I have a
big-leaf maple tree, I fill this bin with the leaves from that, though I'm sure any kind of leaf will do.
Native grasses, rushes and shrubs will be planted in the swale, along with such trees as Oregon ash and
big-leaf maple on the side slopes.
The farm tract is naturally terraced with a section along the river that is typical flood plain forest with cottonwood, ash, alder, western red cedar and
big-leaf maple. Inland a bit, this gives over to farmland once used to grow vegetables but that more recently has grown grass for hay.
For readers unaware of Hanson's former EPD position and role: On June 1, 1997, at what is now Broadway Place, Hanson was the captain directing police in riot gear to use tear gas and pepper spray to disperse activists trying to save 40
big-leaf maple trees from being cut for the development.
The
big-leaf maple tree at Coburg and Game Farm roads (right) just north of Eugene took root about the time Ulysses S.
Anthony Cormier of Mike Sullivan Tree Service climbs out of the rotten stump of a
big-leaf maple tree on the southwest corner of Seventh Avenue and High Street in Eugene.
You can't lose the trail, which means you can lose yourself in the Douglas fir, incense cedar and
big-leaf maple trees flanking the climb.
Chris Borg and Scott Altenhoff (right) of Sperry Tree Care haul off hunks of a
big-leaf maple as Doug Hornaday saws through limbs of the tree.
big-leaf maple - maple of western North America having large 5-lobed leaves orange in autumn