Do you want to help protect birds and their habitat? Looking for a unique gift? With our Adopt-a-Maple program you can support Audubon Vermont’s Bird-Friendly Maple Project as well as our hands-on environmental education programs. Maple sugarbushes are inherently good for birds, but forests that are intentionally managed with birds in mind are even better!

To Adopt-a-Maple Online: Click Here! 

For $100, your name (or the name you designate) will be printed on a maple leaf card and attached to our sugarhouse and a sap bucket for March and April 2026. You will also receive a "sweet" bundle of products from Audubon Vermont:

• Custom maple leaf name card attached to the sugarhouse and to a sap bucket in Audubon's Bird-Friendly Sugarbush. 

• One Sugar on Snow Coupon good at our 2025 Sugar on Snow event on March 21st and 22nd which will give you a sweet treat of a warm sugar on snow with a crisp dill pickle! 

• One pint of Audubon Vermont's maple syrup.

Your Sugar on Snow coupon will be e-mailed to you in March before our events. Don't forget to provide us your e-mail at checkout! Your maple leaf name card and pint of maple syrup will be shipped to you after our Sugar on Snow events. Use code ADOPTMAPLE26 for free shipping!

The fine print: One pint of maple syrup is valued at $12 and a Sugar on Snow coupon is valued at $8. Sponsors will receive a tax receipt for a donation of $80.

While maple syrup can look and taste the same, it can come from forests that are managed in dramatically different ways. Park-like maple monocultures may appeal to our tidy aesthetic and increase sap production over the short-term, but they support relatively low numbers of birds and bird species. In contrast, biologically and structurally diverse sugarbushes offer great places for birds to forage, find cover, and raise their young. They are also likely to have better long-term sap production, fewer forest health problems, and be better able to adapt to the stresses of climate change. Learn more...