Firewood.. what do you do?
I understand the rules for not carrying firewood from location to location. So to avoid most arguments we typically don't have a fire.. although my wife wants one each time we camp. Not sure how it wo...
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camperforlife wrote:Francesca Knowles wrote:
Per that USDA sticker thing- as indicated below, USDA only inspects wood from officially quarantined areas. There is no inspection even available for wood from non-quarantined areas- thus no sticker. Many States, however, do have place-of-origin labeling requirements like Iowa's below. BTW: Eab only affects hardwoods, mostly ash of course.
22 States and Canada are now part of the quarantine so that should give everyone an idea just how enormous the problem has become.
It's not as bad as that, though certainly it's bad enough. The areas outlined in blue below are the current Federal Quarantine areas; these are the only areas where the USDA would be performing inspections/certifications. The only reason for my post was to clear up confusion as to when the USDA inspection shield must be on firewood. I got the impression that there was a misunderstanding that it should be on any firewood bundle, no matter where it came from. This isn't correct- it must appear only on wood that comes from inside those boundaries.
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