Backpacker.com's blog featured our "Meet the Emerald Ash Borer" video, as well as our Firewood Calculator, in today's post.
Whether it is to poke a bit of fun at us or not, we here at dontmovefirewood.org are pretty psyched to see our videos and firewood calculator featured on the Backpacker.com blog today.
They apparently liked our videos, and thought our calculator was nifty if understated.
Even if we go generous, and take 50 pieces of firewood 100 miles in a gas guzzler that gets 15 to the gallon, we only lose $2.64 and put 13.19 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Well, what if you drive an H3 eight cylinder at 75 miles an hour from your posh townhouse on Staten Island, all the way to a shady campsite near Mount Rushmore? You just cut down that old, dying maple tree in your postage-stamp sized backyard and thought you'd have a nice fire with your 100 pieces of firewood when you finally got to the West end of South Dakota. It is only 1,511 miles, no big deal.
You just wasted $87.80 on gas. But more importantly, you probably just transported the Asian Long Horned Beetle (one of America's most potentially dangerous invasive forest insects) to an unguarded feast of lovely native trees.
OK, so these days $87.80 on gas is a drop in the bucket if you are driving an H3 around the Dakotas. But that isn't the point. The point is that moving firewood isn't a good idea- for your wallet, for the trees, or anything. And Backpacker.com got that message dead on.
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