There are many different signals that spring has arrived. In today’s episode of Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist talks about a regional favorite—sugaring. Tapping maple trees, or sugaring, is a popular pastime for many folks, an important way of life or means of income for others. Humans are not the only woodland creatures that crave the sugars in the sap. Squirrels, porcupines, and a kind of woodpecker known as a sapsucker are all known to carve bark off of maple trees to access the sap