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Maple Sugaring

MAPLE SUGARING Attend a Program March is Maple Sugaring Month! All month long your Metroparks will celebrate the season by offering outdoor programs to take you into the sugar bush and learn the history of maple sugaring and how maple...

Wild Wednesday: Sugar Maple

...changing pressures caused by freeze thaw cycles are to thank for this splendidly sweet spring treat! If you’re interested in learning more about maple trees and maple, come attend any of our Maple Sugaring programs – learn more at www.metroparks.com/maple...

Syrup Season & Climate Change

...to offer programs that demonstrate this centuries-old tradition. But let’s explore three facets of maple sugaring. Let’s look at the history of sugaring, the science behind it, and the effects of climate change of the maple sugaring season. Maple-Making Traditions...

Syrup Season: The First Sign of Spring

...but why maple? Why don’t we have pine syrup, or oak syrup, maybe a little hickory for that barbecue taste? Well, some places do! Alaskans celebrate birch syrup time instead of maple. Sugar maple trees don’t survive as well that...

Current Projects & Improvements

...Creek Lake. Approved conceptual drawings can be found in the November 2019 board packet at https://www.metroparks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/11_November-2019.pdf?x91894 starting on page 142.   [foogallery id=”61778″] Maple Beach Kensington Metropark Maple Beach at Kensington Metropark will be receiving some upgrades through two projects...

Organization Overview & History

...for canoeists and kayakers. People come from miles around to Hudson Mills to view the Fourth of July fireworks, make maple syrup, view antique tractors, watch soccer tournaments and track-and-field meets, as well as to participate in other special events...

Kensington Metropark

...from National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF). Maple Beach has family changing rooms available in the recently constructed restroom building. Mats placed on the sand provide beach access. An adjacent playground was designed using universal design principals. Martindale Beach has family...

Summer Concert Series

...Quartet July 23- Woodwind Quintet July 30- Brass Quintet Saturday, July 13 Maple Beach Michigan Philharmonic 5 p.m. – Parking & Food Vendors Open 7:30 p.m. – Concert Saturday, August 3 Pool Activity Area Opening Band: Local Heroes Headline Band:...

Bird of the Week: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

...been done by this species or another woodpecker! Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers tend to make horizontal rows of clean-cut shallow holes in trees. They tend to do this on sugar maple, red maple, hickory, yellow birch, and paper birch trees. Happy Birding!...

Your Summer Starts This Weekend. And Your Metroparks Are Ready.

...Clair and Stony Creek Metroparks will be open (pending water quality tests; we’ll post updates regarding test results later this week) – However, Baypoint Beach in Stony Creek Metropark is closed for construction and Maple Beach in Kensington Metropark is...

Make Your Summer Memorable at Your Metroparks

...discs at the disc golf course or visit the farm center animals. If it’s sunshine and water you seek, take a dip in the lake at Maple and Martindale Beaches in Kensington Metropark, Eastwood and Baypoint Beaches at Stony Creek...

Owls at Your Metroparks: Hoo Do You See

...as regally, 40 yards away in the crown of a Red Maple. Since Eastern Screech Owls were our typical target species at Oakwoods Metropark, this was not a common sight during an Evening Owl Prowl program. However, it is one...

Metroparks Covid-19 Precautions

...an educational adventure. You might just get a chance to be a bird watcher or feed chickadees right from your hand or learn about the trees that will be tapped come maple syrup season or experience a new trail in...

Partnerships Help Make Your Metroparks Accessible

...Play Coalition is a volunteer committee, with members from across our five-county region, who advocate for people with disabilities. It was originally created to help guide the design of the accessible Maple Beach playground at Kensington Metropark. Staff understood that...

Bird of the Week: Red-headed Woodpecker

...lower 48 states in forests, orchards, farmland, grassland, and along roadsides. Since the woodpecker excavates a nest cavity in tree trunks using its chisel-shaped bill, it prefers to nest in softer wood like dead or dying pine, maple, cottonwood, or...

Wild Wednesday: Secrets of the Night-Moths

...moths with wingspans in the 4-6 inch range; and even a small hot-pink-and-yellow patterned rosy-maple moth While moths may not be as well known, there are approximately 8 species of moth to every single species of butterfly on the planet....
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