During sugaring season, Aaron Wightman can’t seem to stay off Maple TV. That’s what he calls the phone app he relies on to monitor the forest he oversees near Cornell University. Earlier this spring, the news was sweet. “Right now, it's pouring in. It's quite a sap run we've got going,” Wightman says when interviewed in March — peak time for maple sugar production. The app lets him and the rest of his team at Cornell track virtually every part of the complex, vacuum-sealed netwo...
