Join us for a FOCI webinar, Don’t Move Firewood Campaign- Present and Planned, on Tuesday January 29th 2019 at 1pm Eastern (10am Pacific, 11 Mountain, Noon Central). The Don’t Move Firewood campaign organizes, creates, and assists with outreach activities over a tremendous scope of partners throughout the year. During this webinar, the manager of Don’t Move Firewood, Leigh […]
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New science on why people make the choice to move firewood
Guest blog by David Coyle, Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University Most insects (and fungi) don’t really move that far on their own. The emerald ash borer, widely considered the worst invasive forest insect of our generation, flies at most a few miles a year. So if that’s the […]
Webinar: Regulations that apply to moving firewood right now
Join us for a FOCI webinar, Regulations that apply to moving firewood right now, on January 30th 2019 at 4pm Eastern, 3 Central, 2pm Mountain, and 1pm Pacific. The regulations that apply to firewood are often not entirely about the firewood itself, which makes it hard to fully categorize and understand the tangled web of rules and […]
Published comments on the emerald ash borer deregulation proposal
NOTE: THIS POST IS FROM NOVEMBER 2018 This fall’s recent open comment period on the proposal to lift the federal quarantine on emerald ash borer brought in well over 140 comments, many of them from national, regional, or statewide groups. In order to facilitate finding and reading the comments that are most pertinent to our […]
Firewood – it’s not as dead as you think
Guest blog by David Coyle, Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University Firewood. For some, collecting, splitting, and stacking firewood may be considered a right of passage. I mean, when I was growing up, I helped my father replenish the woodpile every year – it was one of those things […]
Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death Pathogen Found in Kaua‘i Forest
Guest blog by Melissa Fisher, Director of Kauai Forest Program, The Hawai’i Chapter of The Nature Conservancy One evening early in May 2018 I received a call from the Kauaʻi Department of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) branch manager that started with, “Are you sitting down?” She quickly shared with me devastating information that the deadly […]
New Don’t Move Firewood Radio Advertisements Available
The team at Don’t Move Firewood is excited to announce that our new radio advertisements are now available for free download! We’ve created a series of six different radio spots, appropriate for a variety of Public Service Announcement needs. You can find all six Radio PSA spots in our Resource Library. They are available in 60 second, […]
Firewood moving question from Idaho
Dear Don’t Move Firewood, My family has a camping reservation at Riley Creek Recreation Area in Idaho. We live in Post Falls, Idaho; and are wondering if we can bring our own firewood, locally harvested, to the facility? Yours, Idahoans Dear Idahoans, There are no quarantines that restrict the movement of firewood in your general […]
Where can I donate firewood?
It is that time of year again, when people are taking down dead trees as part of summer property maintenance and then they ask us… Dear Don’t Move Firewood, Is there a place I can donate my wood in the Rockford, Ilinois area? / Is there anyone in the San Francisco, CA area that takes firewood […]
Burning Poles as an Idea
Dear Don’t Move Firewood, Can we burn scrap utility power poles in campgrounds? Of course, these would be nail/screws/plate free, just wood. Sincerely, Scrappy Idea Dear Scrappy Idea, Wood utility poles are nearly always heavily treated with one or several preservative chemicals to prevent rot and insect infestation. The chemicals that are most common in […]