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:camperforlife wrote:Did anybody in that session mention ISPM 15?westend wrote:camperforlife wrote: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..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.
Yep I know that for a fact. I'm currently in a Masters Naturalist program and that was topic for discussion this past week.
I'm really not in disagreement with you as known vectors of a lot of invasive species have come through international shipping. I would probably have a long history of Lake Trout fishing if it wasn't for the lamprey.
Yep, discussed in length. So was the fact that less than 8% are inspected and violations are rampant. It's also illegal to sell counterfeit Gucci handbags but I can find you one pretty easily and they were most likely shipped in on one of those infested pallets or in an infested crate. The point is there are lots of regulations on the books but no funding to back them up. Almost every invasive pest we either introduced intentionally or they were imported in packaging.
