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	Tree Book - Bigleaf maple
		Bigleaf maple generally grows on coarse, gravelly, moist soils, such as those found near river, lake, or stream edges, but it can occur on other moist soils such as seepage areas.
		Squirrels, grosbeaks, and mice eat the seeds of bigleaf maples, and deer and elk eat the twigs.
		Bigleaf maple trees are often draped in mosses, because the bark is rich in calcium and moisture, adding to the attractive wet rainforest plant community.
	www.for.gov.bc.ca /hfd/library/documents/treebook/bigleafmaple.htm (371 words)

	Maple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bigleaf Maple, also known as Pacific Coast Maple and Western Maple, ranges from southern California to British Columbia and is the northwest's second most abundant species of hardwood.
		Bigleaf Maple's rapid early growth can provide sawtimber size trees in 25 to 30 years on a good site.
		Bigleaf Maple is pale pinkish-brown to almost white, characterized by a close, fine grain.
	www.mendocinowoodworking.com /maple.html (207 words)

	Maple Quilted - Acer macrophyllem
		Bigleaf maple is reported to be generally widespread, abundant, and secure globally, although it may be rare in the periphery range (Source - The Nature Conservancy - Rank of relative endangerment based primarily on the number of occurrences of the species globally).
		Bigleaf maple is reported to be native to the Pacific Northwest, with a growth range from southwest British Columbia through Oregon to southern California, with the highest concentration in the Puget Sound region of Washington and the Northwest region of Oregon.
		Bigleaf maple is reported to be the only commercial maple in British Columbia, Canada.
	www.exotichardwoods-northamerica.com /maplequilted.htm (622 words)

	Maple Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bigleaf maple, also known as western maple or Oregon maple, is generally fast growing, and is often considered a weed by foresters and loggers because it will send up shoots after it has been cut down.
		Bigleaf maple is prized for its figure, with pronounced fiddleback curl being relatively common in older trees.
		Instrument-quality maple is found in, say, one of twenty logs, and the rarest master grade is a small subset of the instrument-quality wood..
	www.notablewoods.com /maple.html (439 words)

	Big Leaf Maple trees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bigleaf maples are found in coastal lowlands from just south of the Alaska Panhandle in British Columbia, through the western sections of Washington and Oregon.
		Mature Bigleaf maples that have been growing in the open normally have squat trunks, 3 to 4 feet thick and support massive, spreading limbs.
		Bigleaf maples are easy to recognize from other maples because of their giant leaves (8 to 12 inches across), with five deeply cut lobes.
	www.nps.gov /sajh/maple.htm (683 words)

	Paghat's Garden: Acer macrophyllum
		Bigleaf maple has no subspecies, few variant forms, & has not been much used to produce cultivars.
		The Saanich made a medicine from Bigleaf Maple which was supposed to be useful for soar throats & as a general tonic.
		No maple has larger leaves than Bigleaf Maple; they can measure up to a full foot width or 15 inches in length, with the majority of the leaves in the six to ten inch range.
	www.paghat.com /bigleafmaple.html (1368 words)

	MapleInfo.org - Maple Lumber Properties & Uses
		Maple lumber is broadly classified into two groups, hard maples (sugar maple and fl maple) and soft maples (red maple, silver maple, bigleaf maple and silver maple).
		Silver maple is also known as white, river, water, and swamp maple; red maple as soft, water, scarlet, white, and swamp maple; boxelder as ash-leaved, three-leaved, and cut-leaved maple; and bigleaf maple as Oregon maple.
		Heartwood and sapwood are similar in appearance to hard maple: heartwood of soft maple is somewhat lighter in color and the sapwood, somewhat wider.
	www.mapleinfo.org /htm/maplumprop.cfm (335 words)

	Bigleaf Maple phenology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Bigleaf Maple's physiological response to the changes in its surrounding environment makes it an interesting species as it both makes demands on, and helps do its part in the community it is found in.
		Bigleaf Maple trees, in summer, have the ability to keep temperatures more constant by simply providing shade to the underlying layers, and by evaporative cooling from the transpiring leaves.
		Bigleaf Maple leaves are high in nutrients which are recycled to the ground.
	www.ucfv.bc.ca /biology/biol210/1999/BigLeafMaple/bigleafmaplephenology.htm (873 words)

	The Seattle Times: Search Results
		Another theory is that the bigleafs provide access to both sun and moisture when they drop their leaves in the fall, just in time for the drenching autumn and winter rains.
		A maple's leaves emerge soft and crumpled in the early spring, so tender they are silent in the wind, says Gordon Hempton of Port Angeles, who specializes in recording the sounds of nature.
		An afternoon spent in the shining company of bigleaf maples is a succession of slow, golden glissandos of leaves kiting through shafts of sun, each taking its own graceful flight to the ground.
	archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com /cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=maple21m&date=20021021 (1059 words)

	Acer spp
		The Maples can be separated into two groups based on the ray widths of their microscopic anatomy, the soft maple group and the hard maple group.
		The wood of sugar maple and fl maple is known as hard maple; that of silver maple, red maple, and boxelder as soft maple.
		Maple lumber sometimes has olive or greenish fl discolored areas known as mineral streak or mineral stain, which may be due to injury.
	www2.fpl.fs.fed.us /TechSheets/HardwoodNA/htmlDocs/acersp1.html (803 words)

	Puget Sound Shorelines: Species - Bigleaf Maple
		The bigleaf maple often wears a shaggy green coat of moss, lichen, and ferns.
		Bigleaf maple make special roots which tap this soil for nutrients.
		Bigleaf maple is valuable to preserve on wooded sites, moist hillsides, and slopes with poor soil.
	www.ecy.wa.gov /programs/sea/pugetsound/species/maple.html (337 words)

	48. Bigleaf Maple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Going to the other end of the bicycle rack, between Balmer and Denny Halls, is a Bigleaf Maple, of monumental size, which was forestry professor Frank Brockman's favorite campus tree.
		Native here, this species stretches from southeast B.C. through California, but is generally confined to the coastal strip, within 200 miles of the Pacific Ocean.
		From other maples it is set apart by its exceptionally large leaves, drooping flower clusters and winged seeds.
	www.washington.edu /home/treetour/blmaple.html (140 words)

	Maple Tree Identification
		Similar to sugar maple but usually 3-lobed (sometimes five); often appears to be drooping; often with a thicker leaf and lear stem (petiole) than sugar maple; usually with two winglike or leaflike growths at the base of the petiole (stipules).
		Sugar and fl maple are particularly attractive as sugartrees because of their high sap sugar content and the late date at which they begin growth in the spring.
		Red maple is commonly tapped in certain geographic areas, particularly in the southern and western portions of the commercial maple range.
	www.massmaple.org /treeID.html (2275 words)

	Agroforestry Industry Development Initiative - Approved Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bigleaf maple is North America 's second most abundant hardwood with a wide range of uses.
		Tapping our western maple was thought not to be economically viable due to lower sugar content compared to eastern maples.
		Maple water contains essential minerals and vitamins with potential as a health food product, and Maple wine is being produced from the sap with the intent to create a commercial industry.
	www.woodlot.bc.ca /agroforestry/demo.htm (538 words)

	Bigleaf Maple
		The Bigleaf Maple is well named as its leaves are enormous with stems often as long as the leaf
		The Bigleaf Maple is found in the southwest corner of British Columbia
		Bigleaf Maple leaves are thick, large (15 to 30 cm across), five to seven lobes
	www.bcadventure.com /adventure/wilderness/forest/bigleaf.htm (220 words)

	Maples
		Maple's taptone is rarely a ringing one, but it can't be denied that plenty of wonderful sounding guitars have been made from it, and even a few violins!
		It is also the only maple in which the quilted figure is found, although it is rare, averaging about one tree in a thousand.
		maple (which covers Balkan maple, Italian maple, and German maple of the same species but with some differences) is a fine textured, creamy, lustrous maple that carves well (compared to the American maples), takes a stain very well, but bends like the other maples, which is to say that care must be taken.
	www.alliedlutherie.com /maples.htm (400 words)

	Bigleaf Maple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The bigleaf maple grows in the western United States along the Pacific Coast.
		The leaves on this maple species, as indicated by its name, are very large, sometimes measuring up to 60 centimetres wide.
		Bigleaf maple leaves turn bright yellow, thereby enhancing the tree's appeal.
	www.domtar.com /arbre/english/p_ergra.htm (152 words)

	California Forest Stewardship Program: Bigleaf Maple
		The bigleaf maple is an important food plant for animals—the seeds are eaten by small mammals and birds and the twigs are food for elk and deer.
		And humans are known to use the flowers in salads and make a type of maple syrup from the sap.
		In moist forests, bigleaf maple branches are often covered with hanging mosses.
	ceres.ca.gov /foreststeward/html/maple.html (263 words)

	Untitled Document
		Research will focus on factors that determine the natural distribution of bigleaf maple within old-growth forest stands and on the impact of bigleaf maple on nutrient cycling and conifer growth.
		The impact of bigleaf maple on soil chemistry and nutrient dynamics in a BC conifer forest.
		Influence of bigleaf maple on forest floor chemical properties in conifer forests: a spatial approach.
	www.sfu.ca /geog/soils/bigleafmaple.html (128 words)

	Marin CNPS - Junior Botanist Study Kit - Trees - Bigleaf Maple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bigleaf maple is the only native maple in Marin County.
		The large leaves are an adaptation that allow it to make use of as much as possible of the light that filters through the canopy of taller trees.
		Native Americans in Washington and British Columbia used an infusion of bark for tuberculosis, the sticky bud gum for hair tonic, the leaves in steaming pits to flavor meat, and the sap as maple syrup.
	www.marin.cc.ca.us /cnps/BigleafMaple.html (161 words)

	eNature: FieldGuides: Species Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A handsome shade tree and particularly showy in autumn, it is popular on the Pacific Coast.
		The only western maple with wood of commercial importance, it is used for veneer, furniture, handles, woodenware, and novelties.
		Indians made canoe paddles from the wood, and maple sugar can be obtained from the sap.
	www.enature.com /fieldguides/detail.asp?recnum=TS0123 (223 words)

	Bigleaf Maple Syrup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sean and Lucas chose tapping bigleaf maple for their second-year forestry project.
		Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum) is the largest and most common maple on Vancouver Island.
		maple water) can be used raw in place of water for cooking and for beverages.
	www.island.net /~maple (1348 words)

	Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum) in Alaska? - Northwestern Gardening Forum - GardenWeb
		Interestingly, bigleaf maple is native to a few locales east of the Cascade crest including just west of Goldendale, in the Pehastin Creek canyon south of Leavenworth, and in the Entiat River Valley.
		Then consider that these maples occur at much higher altitudes (another factor that cannot possibly be considered by the map, since all the weather stations in that area are in the valleys), up to at least 4,000', so they can probably live through colder temperatures than what Leavenworth experiences.
		Considering all those factors together, I think it's a safe bet that bigleaf maples from central Washington can survive most, if not all winters in zone 5, and may be growable in parts of zone 4 as well.
	forums.gardenweb.com /forums/load/nwest/msg080550069134.html (1226 words)

	Bigleaf maple 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bigleaf, or broadleaf, maple is the largest maple in the Pacific Northwest.
		Perhaps more beautiful though is the arching form of bigleaf maple branches.
		Farther inland, and on drier sites, bigleaf maple develops a huge oval crown which begins just a few feet off the ground.
	www.cof.orst.edu /cof/fr/outreach/treeomth/bigleaf/big2.htm (123 words)

	Acer macrophyllum. BIGLEAF MAPLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The samaras, which are red when young, have a furry body and the wings do not diverge much, in fact they may overlap.
		There is a specimen standing near the Norway maple northwest of Frost Amphitheater off Lasuen Street, and several between El Camino Real and Pampas Lane and between the Credit Union and Stanford Auxiliary Library.
		Bigleaf maple is a native tree of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and the foothills and creeks close to Stanford.
	trees.stanford.edu /ENCYC/ACERmac.htm (134 words)

	Bigleaf Maple, Quilted Maple, Oregon Maple: Find it in Woodfinder!
		DESCRIPTION: The largest maple in North America, the bigleaf maple is also one of the most dramatic.
		The basic wood color is similar to eastern maple species, but it is usually highly variegated, with streaks and swirls of other colors including a range of browns and fls.
		Bigleaf maple works nicely with all hand and power tools, although figured stock is difficult to handplane.
	www.woodfinder.com /woods/bigleaf_maple.php (128 words)

	Wooden Jewelry Boxes and Jewelry Chests by West Creek Studio
		Curly cherry case and pulls, birdseye maple drawers and splines.
		Birdseye maple drawers with a swirl of heartwood.
		Curly cherry case, birdseye maple drawers, rosewood pulls and splines.
	www.westcreekstudio.com /chests.html (909 words)

	Maple sirup production from bigleaf maple
		Description: Bigleaf maple sap flow during the 1970-71 season ranged from none to 16.9 gallons per taphole and sugar content of the sap from 1.0 to 2.6 percent.
		The sirup was very flavorful, although not as strong in typical maple flavor as that made from eastern sugar maple.
		Ruth, Robert H.; Underwood, J. Clyde; Smith, Clark E.; Yang, Hoya Y. Maple sirup production from bigleaf maple Res.
	www.treesearch.fs.fed.us /pubs/3032 (252 words)

	Acer macrophyllum - BIG LEAF MAPLE - Rainyside.com
		Our native, Bigleaf maple, common in the Northwest, is a large, handsome, deciduous tree.
		In the rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula, the moss grows so thick it becomes compost, where the trees sprout roots even up in their canopies.
		It takes three times as much sap from our native maple to make a quantity of syrup.
	www.rainyside.com /features/plant_gallery/nativeplants/Acer_macrophyllum.html (328 words)

	Bigleaf Maple, Oregon maple (Acer macrophyllum)
		Growth Habits: Deciduous tree, fast growing to 30 to 70 feet tall (12-21 m) or more; 3 to 5-lobed leaves, up to 15 inches wide (37 cm), turning yellow in the fall.
		This is the biggest of the maples, the name 'macrophyllum' comes from the Greek for 'large leaved'.
		Its sap can be used to make syrup.
	www.desert-tropicals.com /Plants/Aceraceae/Acer_macrophyllum.html (251 words)

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