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  • Seen here are some of the homemade collection devices used to collect sap from silver and red maple trees at OSU-Mansfield.

  • Lines feed maple sap into a “syrup shack” at the OSU-Mansfield campus.

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  • Gabe Karns uses a monitoring device to check the sugar level from sap that just came out of a tree at OSU-Mansfield.

  • Gabe Karns, a professor at The Ohio State University, “taps” a maple tree on Saturday at the OSU-Mansfield campus.

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  • The collection tank fills inside the syrup shack on Saturday.

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