Firewood Ontario

JaxDad wrote:

Ralph Cramden wrote:
It's kiln dried lumber. So called certified firewood bearing the USDA/APHIS stamp that supposedly can be moved anywhere in the US, is "kiln dried".

The key in that is two words, 'lumber' and 'stamped'.

Once it's little short pieces you're not going to convince a beaurocrat that's something you're going to use for construction. Now you can *try* to convince them that you brought a face cord of scraps for levelling your rig. Good luck.

Then they say 'ok, it's kiln dried, shows the stamp on each piece.'........... Ooops.

Then they say 'It's firewood and under our regulations it's prohibited to transport it in a regulated area, so we'll have to seize it.'

Just find a local vendor near the park you want to stay in and buy some firewood.

Be aware though, most Provincial and Federal parks prohibit ANY outside firewood, and they know the drill, you're not the first one to find a better way. Most sell their firewood in specially labelled bags, and record which site bought how much firewood, if the park ranger catches you burning bootlegged wood you'll face a fine and likely be ousted too.

The folks at the site next to us at Lake Superior Agawa Bay park last year got tossed, with no refund, for exactly that.

Since my previous post evaporated I assume I was the one not being civil.

So in Canadas Provincial parks the rangers or other management has the time to record how many bundles of overpriced wood you buy? Then they have some way of determining how much you burnt per night and if you exceed the quota the wood police show up?

If I bought 5 bundles you can bet I'll turn that to ashes in about 3 hours max, as opposed to a guy and his wife I met at the campground a few years back who invite us over to their site often. He builds fires about as big as a single match. That 5 bundles of wood would last him 5 nights at least.



Further proof that government intervention and quarantines or restrictions on moving firewood by campers do not make a difference when it comes to invasive insects.

PA DCNR Resource news, 8-9-17

If you click one of the links in the news letter you are taken to an internet newsletter by an internet gardener named George Weigle. He says that the EAB moves East and South by "Moving Firewood and Flight". I'd bet more on the flight aspect LOL.