Don't move firewood
Food for thought. Don't move firewood There is an interactive map to see what restrictions the state you're traveling to has,but the best policy is to not haul firewood and just buy it where you'll ...
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westend wrote:dodge guy wrote:westend wrote:Searching_Ut wrote:It is probable that the firewood was treated before packaging to eradicate any insects.
The bad thing is, when you "Buy Local" It often doesn't mean it's a local produced product. This year when buying the little bundles of firewood at a store near where we were camped recently in both Utah, and Colorado, it turns out the wood came from Montana. Go figure...
In the Midwest, the transportation bans are to SLOW the advance of EAB, not to eliminate it. I'm thinking the Western States will have similar rules as EAB spreads West. In my resident County and surrounding counties, it is illegal to transport Ash firewood across County lines.
So the packaged firewood they offer at the campground that was cut in northern WI, 300plus miles away, is ok because it's been inspected (ya right all of it), but they won't allow me to bring in scrap 2x4's and 4x4's? Or at least they think i don't! At this point very few campgrounds are worried about there teees and more about putting some more money in thier pocket! Sorry but this is one area that irritates me!
Most probable is that the firewood you saw at the campground is treated before it is transported. There would be no reason to inspect every piece as the bulk treatment kills off any insects.
Yeah, it irks me to not be able to transport firewood, I heat with it and have a good sized stack ready for burning. I also have stacks of lumber that are in a continual recycling phase. It just doesn't make much sense to transport local firewood if it is going to spread any disease, the cost is far less than the risk.
I take it from your post that you are still transporting wood because you don't like paying the inflated campground prices?
Yep transporting construction lumber my neighbor gets. No different than watching it all go by on a train headed thousands of miles from where it was cut. And yes i don't like paying the inflated prices at a campground. Between that, tolls, high fuel costs, it all starts adding up real fast! Gotta save somewhere and i have in tolls and firewood, still working on the fuel savings though!
