In the fall of 2020, I went on a hike in a conservation parcel. Not a park or a preserve, but a joint effort between landowners and preservationists. The owner agrees in writing to not develop their land, opens it to public use and return receives a tax break. This trail starts by passing through an active maple sugar bush. You have to carefully work your way through the tubing that remains strung-up for the late winter/early spring sugaring season when the trees will be tapped and sap runs through these tubes to collection tanks. The sap is then brought to the sugarhouse to boiled down into yummy Maine maple syrup. While Maine is around #3 in syrup production in the USA, our Somerset County is the #1 producing county. Roughly 2/3rds of what is produced in that county winds-up in Quebec as most of the sugar bush is along the Quebec border. They're finally properly labeling the resulting syrup as from both Canadian and America sources. For a while it was labeled as Canadian-only. But, we here in Maine know the truth. (chuckle)

And of course, the squirrels needed to perch on one of the lines for a photo.

And I forgot to add where this was: Marr's Ridge Tail in Whitefield, Maine about 10 miles (16km) east of Augusta.