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Station 1
Virtual Field Trip to a Maple Sugar Farm
Trees can give us many products and maple syrup is one of them!
-->Visit Leane & Michael's Sugarbush maple sugar-bush and sugar-house by watching this video:-->

If trees were no longer able to be used for commercial products such as the ones listed in this station,how would your lifestyle be different? What would you have to use/do instead?

--> Share 3 examples with someone.
Other tree products:
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  • Fruit/food for humans and wildlife
  • Timber for building and furniture
  • Mulch for landscaping
  • Firewood
  • Paper products
  • Turpentine (a paint removing solvent) from Ponderosa Pine
  • Rubber originally came from the Rubber plant tree (Ficus elastica)
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  • Ingredients in: hairspray, deodorant, soaps, crayons, cosmetics, gum, baby food, pet food...
  • Glue- specifically a kind from a Balsam Fir (Abies balsamen) to attach glass together or specimens to glass microscope slides
  • Medicines to treat: arthritis (aspirin orginally came from the bark of a willow tree ) , cancer (Pacific yew- Taxusbrevi folia) and other illnesses
From idahoforest.org -