Zane King hammered a spike into a maple tree at the Jennings Environmental Education Center in Brady Township Saturday.

Nearly 30 people attended a maple sugaring seminar at Jennings Environmental Education Center in Brady Township Saturday morning.

The program, put on annually by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, aims to send participants out the door with the educational background and field experience needed to take up tapping maple trees in their own back yards.

DCNR officers walked the group through the methods of identifying a suitable maple tree, then set out on a trail to let visitors drill taps for themselves.

This is an excerpt from a story appearing in Monday's Butler Eagle.