Despite its name, soft maple is a more than adequate species for furniture, flooring, cabinets and other products.

It is one of the largest and most important hardwood species in North America ... Songbirds, woodpeckers, and cavity nesters use the sugar maple as a home. Brockman, C.F. 1986. Trees of North America: ...

The young branches of red maple serve as an important source of food for wildlife like elk and white-tailed deer. Burns, R.M. and Honkala, B.H., 1990. Silvics of North America (Vol. 2). United States ...

Botanists are calling for urgent action to protect rare maple trees ... But threatened species also occur in other parts of Asia and the Americas. The North American sugar maple is famous for ...