Crown land
Only through a lease or bidNew Brunswick's Crown Lands and Forests Act fee regulation (N.B. Reg. 2020-45) defines a "maple sugary lease" as a lease of Crown Lands issued for the purpose of producing maple syrup and other maple products, and sets its rent at "$400 or 50% of the standard lease rental, whichever is greater" (s. 13), with the standard rental calculated from the lease area's market value and separate application, renewal, assignment and amendment fees. New land is allocated competitively: the Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries' maple page says "The Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Maple Sugary leasing opportunity has now closed" and that the department is "working with all RFP applicants to develop the lease allocation process," with financial support available to approved lease clients for their five-year development plans. Search summaries describe a 5,000-tap minimum for new sugaries, 10-year lease terms and a separate route for additions to existing sugaries, but the application-process and proposal-outline PDFs returned 404 and the Service New Brunswick page did not render, so those details are not confirmed. We found no small-scale or personal-use option.
Provincial parks
No rule foundThe Parks Act lets the Lieutenant-Governor in Council "take measures ... for the protection of flora in any provincial park"; the regulations that carry out that protection were not opened, so the park-specific tapping rule is not confirmed. Assume tapping in a provincial park is not allowed and ask the park.
Private land you don't own
Get the owner's permission. New Brunswick's Trespass Act (R.S.N.B. 2012, c. 117) was fetched but did not render into readable text, so its offence and penalty wording is not confirmed here. Written leases are standard for tapping someone else's woods.
Lease rates seen in the sources: Crown maple sugary lease rent: $400 a year or 50% of the standard Crown lease rental (based on the lease area's market value), whichever is greater (N.B. Reg. 2020-45, s. 13). No private lease-rate survey for New Brunswick was opened.
What to confirm
Program mechanics (minimum taps, lease term, expansion route, contact email) come only from search summaries and are not confirmed: the DAAF application-process PDF, proposal outline PDF, 2023 news release and the 2003 Crown Land Maple Sugary policy (CLM 005 2003) were all unreachable. Indigenous objections to the 2023 expansion were reported in news (not opened). Provincial park regulations and the Trespass Act text were not read.
