Who else is above 6000 ft?
Sea level is what the maple syrup guy was talking
about,not mountains.
Denver is pretty flat but has a high altitude.
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““Isnt the only high elevations in NE associated with Mt. WASHINGTON.”
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No.”
There are several 4,000 plus mountains in Vermont, NH and Maine. But I suspect their reference to high elevation was not to suggest those ultra-high mountains. Trees won’t grow above a certain elevation so they would be useless. They are also all federally protected.
The reference is more to the fact that most of Vermont is above 500 feet above sea level thus would never be under sea level.
Elevation
- Highest point Mount Mansfield 4,393 ft (1339 m)
- Mean 1,000 ft (300 m)
- Lowest point Lake Champlain 95 to 100 ft (29 to 30 m)
Their analysis fails to understand that Vermont is susceptible to water damage of water coming off the mountains.
Even Wiki has been infected by the climate change crap: Climate change appears to be affecting the maple sugar industry. Sugar maples have been subject to stress by acid rain, asian longhorn beetles, pear thrips, and, in 2011, an excessive deer herd that is forced to eat bark in the winter. These maples need a certain amount of cold to produce sap for maple syrup. The time to tap these trees has shrunk to one week in some years. The tree may be replaced by the more aggressive Norway maples, in effect forcing the sugar maples to “migrate” north to Canada.
BTW, trees cannot migrate, the implication of the last statement is that the industry will migrate to Canada which actually has a larger volume of production mainly because there is far more land to tap in Canada.
Industrial level production has been going on for years. It is a side business, because it is a business that operates for about 6 weeks a year. Farmers work on their other crops and livestock the rest of the year.
Further info about the industry: There were about 2,000 maple products producers in 2010. In 2001, Vermont produced 275,000 US gallons (1,040,000 L) of maple syrup, about one-quarter of U.S. production. For 2005 that number was 410,000 US gallons (1,600,000 l; 340,000 imp gal) accounting for 37 percent of national production. This rose to 920,000 US gallons (3,500,000 l; 770,000 imp gal) in 2009. The state’s share of the nation’s production rose to 42% in 2013. It had the second lowest price at $33.40/gallon.