Don't Move Firewood!

This camping and hunting season… purchase your firewood from a vendor close to your destination. Don’t pack your own firewood for use at your campsite or cabin. Unfortunately, our native trees and forests are being threatened by invasive insects and diseases that live in dead and dying wood.

In the winter months, wood piles stack up. Hidden in your firewood may be invasive pests that can threaten our forest.

You can prevent the spread:

• Don't Move Firewood. Always keep your firewood in your county and if you buy it, know the source.
• Do not accept firewood from other states. And no matter the degree of the winter, harsh or mild, be sure to burn every piece of wood before May 1st.
• If you are camping or hunting, buy firewood at your destination.

Learn more...

For more information, visit the following Web sites:

• Emerald Ash Borer: http://www.emeraldashborer.info/
• Forest Health Protection: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/
• USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's Plant Protection and Quarantine:
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/plant_pest_info/

Insect Threats

Chestnut Borer | Gypsy Moth | Hemlock Woolly Aldegid | Southern Pine Beetle | Sudden Oak Death

Other Forest Health Topics

Four Threats to Forest Health | Forest Health Initiative | Red cockaded woodpecker | Invasive Species | Prescribed Burning

Title: Forest Health
Last Updated: July 27, 2009