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Mon, May 13th at 3:49 pm
Springtime projects and leftover wood
L. Greenwood
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As the days grow longer, you start to realize... wow, this deck is getting kind of old and rickety. Maybe I should do some outdoors renovations before the heat of summer comes on. And then...

 

Dear Don't Move Firewood,

Can you burn lumber? What about left over treated boards from building our deck?

Yours,

Deckbuilder Anonymous

 

Dear Anonymous,

 

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Thu, May 30th at 2:28 pm
All the ways we talk to you!
L. Greenwood
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Did you know that Don't Move Firewood has a blog? Oh, wait, you are reading it. Just checking you are awake.

 

Aside from our blog, we also maintain a wide variety of online options for staying in touch. Here's a list in case you want to sign up, like, or follow us!

- We are on Facebook at facebook.com/dontmovefirewood

- We tweet at twitter.com/dntmovefirewood (note that first O in Don't is missing on purpose)

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Mon, May 13th at 3:49 pm
Springtime projects and leftover wood
L. Greenwood
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As the days grow longer, you start to realize... wow, this deck is getting kind of old and rickety. Maybe I should do some outdoors renovations before the heat of summer comes on. And then...

 

Dear Don't Move Firewood,

Can you burn lumber? What about left over treated boards from building our deck?

Yours,

Deckbuilder Anonymous

 

Dear Anonymous,

 

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Wed, May 1st at 2:20 pm
The pallet to firewood pest connection
F. Campbell
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At least 58 non-native wood-boring insect species have been detected in the United States since 1985; nearly all are suspected of having entered the country in crates, pallets, or other forms of packaging made of wood. And despite the far tighter regulations on wooden packaging that were put in place in 2006, some wood boring insects are bound to continue sneaking into North America.

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Tue, Apr 30th at 3:40 pm
Beetle time!
L. Greenwood
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This weekend it was unseasonably warm at my house. Sunny, gorgeous, high around 65. We recently had an arborist cut down a few trees that were leaning hazardously towards our house, so there is a lot of firewood in our yard waiting to be neatly bucked and stacked. I was playing outside when it hit me.

 

Literally.

 

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Tue, Apr 23rd at 2:34 pm
Preventing pest entry on plants
F. Campbell
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We’ve talked a lot here on Don’t Move Firewood about how forest pests can enter North America on or in the wood of packaging materials, such as pallets. One thing that we talk less about is that many pests also have reached our shores on imports of living plants. Examples of this problem include the hemlock woolly adelgid, winter moth, and the pathogen sudden oak death.

 

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