Forest Stewardship
Our local maple communities as well as our global environment depend on maintaining and conserving healthy forests.
Maple forests and the carbon question
Maple producers depend on healthy forests. Trees and forest soils store carbon, while making maple syrup uses energy and other resources. To understand the full picture, we need information from producers as well as careful analysis of the forests they manage.
IMSI’s Environmental Resilience Committee is gathering that evidence. Its producer survey provides a starting point, and work with the Ontario Maple Syrup Producers’ Association on a LiDAR project may add more detail about the forests. Explore the survey below. Analysis and results will be shared as the work progresses.