Daily Press file photo

The time is right locally to make maple syrup. Sap used to make syrup is tapped from maple trees when temperatures are above freezing, but fall below freezing at night. The harvested sap is then processed into syrup by local maple syrup producers. Above, Greg Olson of Olson Bros. Sugar Bush in Bark River checks gauges as water is separated from sap — part of the process of making maple syrup — in this file photo.