On Sunday, sap dripped from a maple tree onto my vehicle in my driveway. It’s been a weird couple of weeks, and here are a few ways it’s affecting Minnesota fish, wildlife, and flora.
Outdoors scribe Joe Fellegy’s younger brother, Steve, has been tapping maples on the north side of Mille Lacs near Wealthwood for decades. This year, he tapped trees Jan. 31 – 19 days earlier than his previous earliest tapping record of Feb. 18, 1981.
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