Split and stacked. This is the most amount of tulip I’ve ever had, and the most I’d ever want to have. At least it’ll dry fast and produce some heat for me. The red maple pile. I’ll have to top off the stack with some dead ash that I got recently. I’m confident I won’t go cold next winter at least
I worked through quite a bit of poplar a few years ago, are they similar? Turned a bunch into cants for practice while learning to square file. It was fun times for sure. Scored some poplar Parents burned through it really quick, 6 cords in a season. It made me second guess my choice to provide them with firewood. The only good thing I'd say about poplar, it's great for folks that don't want really heavy pieces of wood.
For firewood purposes they're fairly similar. They dry at about the same rate and have a similar burn time. I think I prefer your kind of poplar (aspen) over the tulip variety, which is in the magnolia family and is a poplar in name only.