A honeybee from the hives at Springboro Tree Farms in Brookston, Indiana looks for food on a portion of the roughly two miles of plastic tubing run through the woods as part of the farm’s maple syrup operation. Rich Hines, who owns the farms, has worked with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service to implement conservation practices on his 33 acres of his forestland in Brookston, Indiana. Hines used the forest for maple syrup production as well as recreation. Hines worked with NRCS through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to implement brush management, trail improvements and a forest management plan. He also utilized the Conservation Stewardship Program’s forest songbird habitat maintenance, forest stand improvement and tree planting enhancements. (NRCS photo by Brandon O’Connor)