2007 Earth Keeper Clean Sweep Update #2 2007 Earth Day Pharmaceutical Clean Sweep Third annual Earth Keeper Clean Sweep This is the script to the second 2007 Earth Keeper Clean Sweep Update. These are days when I'm rummaging through my basement, putting together a collection of specific tools and equipment for the beginning of the maple syrup season. Gathering sap is unique part of Upper Peninsula life, dating back to traditions of the Ojibway, hundreds if not thousands of years ago. It's a time when temperatures fall below freezing by night and into the 40's F during the day. Some years sap flows but a few days, most often two or three weeks. Even then, it's always an intermittent process. The trees I tap are on a remote piece of land twenty miles north of Marquette. I've discovered that to have a good maple syrup season you need to watch the weather, be prepared, carry through the tapping and boiling process with special, reverent care. There's trouble afoot. The word from our north country neighbors, the New England maple producers, is that irregular seasonal patterns over recent years are wrecking havoc with our maple trees. Since 1971, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data, winter temperatures in the Northeast have increased 2.8 degrees. The progression of the maple-sugaring season is moving earlier and earlier and also getting shorter. Tim Perkins of the Maple Research Center at the University of Vermont, predicts that if this trend ...
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