A 100-year-old big leaf maple tree will be removed from the Washington state Capitol Campus on Friday. The Department of Enterprise Services said in a news release that the 60-foot-tall tree with an ...

There's probably more written on how to kill a bigleaf maple tree than how to grow one, according to Neil McLeod of Neil's Bigleaf Maple Syrup, a farm in the tiny northwestern Washington burg of Acme.

As its name suggests, the bigleaf maple tree’s massive leaves are perhaps its most distinctive quality. A native to the Pacific Northwest’s wet westside forests, these towering trees can grow leaves ...