Michael Inniss nimbly weaves his way up and down a series of paths in the treed gully just behind his Bradner home. Much of the five acres is cleared, but Bigleaf maples dominate the second-growth forest where this maple meister got his start in syrup.
“This here is Old Faithful,” he says, patting the trunk of a particularly large Bigleaf maple with one hand and stroking his bushy black beard with the other.















