Who the F is buying that stuff? They must be making all their sales to the upper crust in Medina and Bellevue. One seller's price doesn't set the market. If those prices actually represented the firewood market, I'd get in the business.
We've still got plenty of them. Just about everything with needles has more than it's fair share of boring critters of various flavors. The forest is so bloody thick in some places from a couple hundred years of fighting every forest fire that the spread really easily. I just saw a youtube video where they've been doing prescribed controlled burning in Banff national park. Unfortunately, we have so many oil and gas well sites here that it's dammed near impossible to do it now. Eventually, mother nature will find her balance whether she thins out the trees with fire or beetles. She always does no matter how hard we try to screw it up. LOL.
I paid 100 bucks for less than a cord. Actually it’s a facecord if that. So I got gypped. But Apple is great for the bbq too. So what you don’t use in your stove...
They do sell it to the upper crust there. Renton and all. I mean I chit you not, they had a seller in the northern area slapping out 650 for Alder. 650. Immediately that would prompt the people who bought to say “mine’s better” just because it costs more. The spoonfed brown stuff leaking out of these folks...is just as much to blame from the sellers. They want to set the market because they think their wood is so much better but go out and cut your own stuff and you could have wood that is not even the best and its the same wood. “Uh oh, Houston we have a problem”
We have the same problem. It's gotten really bad the last few years. Prescribed burns are not possible too many gas wells. All our big pines 3' diameter have been reduced to saw dust and most of the smaller ones are dying. Mountain Pine Beetles and Southern Pine Beetles are the main culprits. We now start seeing damage to the big Eastern Red Cedars as well. The oaks also have problems. If this keeps up our whole forest will be gone soon. The only thing that thrives here anymore is Green Briar, Blackberries and Poison Ivy.
If you take separate numbers from East and West Arkansas, Montana, Oregon and Washington the numbers look a lot different.
That's probably true. We have a lot of forest in Arkansas. I was just talking about our own property. We have lost so many trees over the last few years some to drought but most to insects. It's heart breaking to see those beautiful old Pines reduced to dust.
The disturbing things is we need those trees to remove the carbon dioxide. Of course we like the wood supply too. Heh.
Thanks for the response. I wonder why our region which is a bit milder than the banff region has seen the bugger move on? Ive been told weather or disease within the species. Ive noticed over the last few years more standing dead doug fir though. Although a windfall for wood hoarders Id rather scrounge harder then have easy pickins on stressed trees. Im serious about the pine beetle kill trees though.... we have almost none. Its that way all through SE BC.
The problem in some of Arkansas is that we have had such horrible droughts. It weakens the trees and leaves them vulnerable. Unfortunately the land we bought is in one of those areas. Any time when there is rain coming in it for some reason tends to go around us. We may get a light sprinkling while a few miles south or north of us they get drowned. You can watch it on radar how it moves towards us and then fizzles away right around us, going north and south as if we are under a dome.
My friend and I just bought a half cord of Apple and half cord of dry Cherry for $150. We split it plus the $30 in gas. We plucked 'em right out of the orchard and into our fire place. Cherry burns hot -- real hot and this stuff is so dry it lights easy and burns predictable. To be honest, I now wonder why I fuss with the other stuff. It's totally worth it in my view to give up half a day to travel 93 miles one way to get it.
Interesting this post started as termite moving and devolved into EAB transport. Reality is termites are colony dependent. You move them in a round, slit and stack off the ground and they are essentially dead as most are worker bees going to-from the main colony. Eliminate moisture and they have a hard time reestablishing a new colony. If you transport them when they have reached "swarm" stage - winged individuals ready to go start anew... then you have possibly expanded their footprint. The little white buggers in a log won't do much to your homesite, provided not stacked against structures or in direct contact with the ground
Interesting map. What happened in North Dakota? Don't they like trees there? Or did the people from Maine steal them all? There is one error though. Obviously Texas has not only the biggest forests but also the biggest trees.
