Tromp through the forests of the Upper Midwest—think Wisconsin and Michigan, specifically—and you’ll run across plenty of acer saccharum or hard ... maple is grown,” Doug Hamar, Horner ...

Although not as strong as hard maple, the name “soft” gives the wrong impression. Soft maple is more than adequate for many uses, including furniture, flooring, cabinets, kitchenware ...

All on hard maple. Why maple? To Connor Sports technical director Jason Gasperich, it’s no coincidence that the Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association was founded six years after James ...