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GMF staff advise teachers on natural resource curricula content, conduct programs at area schools, and welcome field trips to the Forest. The activities for a science class visit during the maple syrup season included the following:
· “You’ve learned about the importance of thinning trees to allow growing space, of promoting species diversity to deter pests and benefit wildlife, and have learned how to identify the trees that will produce more sugar. Now mark the trees in this sugarbush you would remove to benefit the health of the forest.”
· “In 1946, CH Jones, a scientist at the University of Vermont, worked out that the number 86 divided by the percent sugar content of the sap gives an estimate of the number of gallons of sap required to make one gallon of syrup. If this sap is 2% sugar, and we expect to make 65 gallons of syrup this year, about how much sap will we have collected?”
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