westend wrote:
camperforlife wrote:
Water-Bug wrote:
I recently dropped off my northern lower penninsula of Michigan firewood, at the rest stop just south of the Macanaw Bridge, (the supposed boundry for transporting wood) and then followed a semi load of raw logs across the bridge. I guess that if you are BIG business you're special. (Or at least your logs are).
And..........all those ships off loading from overseas have pallets made from non kiln dried lumber and all kinds of bugs in them and have no restrictions about where they are transported. That is where most of the invasive pests originated.
I don't think you know all that for certain. Have you looked at pallets lately? I see many of them from overseas with an inspection stamp. The inspection stamp gives information about how the pallet is treated, i.e. bromide, kiln, etc..
Yep I know that for a fact. I'm currently in a Masters Naturalist program and that was topic for discussion this past week.