firewood - emerald ash borer

JJBIRISH wrote:
how unfortunate that campers that profess their love of nature and the outdoors are the group that is the least willing to preserve it if it will cost them anything… for so many their love of the forest is trumped by worth of the 30 quarters they might save by transporting wood they don’t know is clean…

Straw man. Please explain how me carrying a Sterilite tote of cut-up pine pallets can spread the emerald ash borer. Be specific. (Note: directly from someone from the USFS last spring, the EAB does not infect evergreens!)

they make one excuse after another to avoid being a part of the solution…

but they don’t realize the failure of just a few that can save a few bucks can cost communities, counties, states, and private businesses millions in cost and losses by their carless and selfish acts…

while it has NEVER BEEN SAID that firewood is the only means of rapid spreading of new colonies of these pest, it is the most probable cause for it…

Yeah, it must be firewood...and not those logging trucks...not that load of trees heading to the nursery...

firewood mostly comes from dead, dying, and weakened trees, the most likely to be infested, cut into small pieces and hauled even deeper into the back woods of state and federal lands to infect a new stand…

non-caring users of camping firewood do the least to prevent rapid spread of these diseases and pest…
regulations for commercial wood movers are far more intrusive and costly and they must comply with federal, state and local laws and restrictions and pay much more for non-compliance…

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Wow, you POUNDED that straw man. Good job!