by Catherine+twins » Wed Feb 19, 2014 9:38 pm
We have bark beetle here in NM, so transporting fire wood with bark on is discouraged. The camp grounds I frequent (National Forest and a few stat parks) don't have firewood for sale. My firewood is mostly trimmings from my fruit trees, a maple that is throwing a lot of root sprouts, and a couple of big old ponderosa pines. When I grill something outside in the spring and summer, I put a few extra logs on after the food is cooked, cover the kettle, and char the outside of the logs. Then I can call my wood "natural charcoal" when I get to a campground. The charred wood is pine-bark beetle free (well, half of it is apple, so that is beetle free anyway!) and safe to burn anywhere. Otherwise, I buy charcoal. But with fire restrictions from May until November, it's mostly theoretical anyway! My fallback is a Coleman stove or a Global Sun Oven.
Catherine
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