The connection between firewood and maple syrup is quite close.
Unfortunately, the connection between maple syrup and firewood is getting closer every day. Not only does it take an incredible amount of fuel to boil off the water in the raw tree sap and make it into maple syrup, but that very fuel (firewood, in traditional cases) could be the downfall of many a maple sugar farm (technically called a sugarbush).
The Asian longhorned beetle loves sugar maples, and of course, those maples are the ones that create maple syrup. The USFS is asking maple sugar producers to scour their lands for signs of the ALB, so that if it is found, they can eradicate it.
Here's a particularly pertinent quote from a recent article found on the web:
The beetle is "unfortunately just a car drive away." (Kevin Dodds, forest entomologist with U.S. Forest Service in Durham, N.H.) said, pointing to the danger that a visitor from the Worcester area could carry infested firewood to a camp or other recreational destination in Maine.
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