Solid Weekend at Solid Sound By Julia Sullivan With Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival under our belts, Annalena and I felt like old pros by the time we rolled into MASS MoCA for a few hours of tabling last Friday. While we weren’t lucky enough to snag a spot inside the actual Solid Sound […]
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How to order your own bug tattoos
Here at Don't Move Firewood, we strive to supply any non-profit or local agency outreach professionals that come to us with supplies to aid in their own Don't Move Firewood outreach efforts. That includes things like our brochures, fake tattoos, stickers, water bottles, fans… you name it. So what's our most popular item? Fake […]
Firewood without bark in Missouri
Dear Don't Move Firewood, I live in Missouri and I camp often. Is it ok to use lumber without bark? Yours, Concerned Camper Dear Concerned Camper, What a deceptively complicated question- and a good one to ask. Lumber (I assume you mean cut firewood, not construction lumber here) without bark is indeed a bit […]
Summer 2013 Kickoff- Clearwater!
Don't Move Firewood Summer Interns start off at Clearwater Great Hudson River Revival! By Annalena Barrett Last weekend Julia and I (the brand new Community Outreach Interns for the Don’t Move Firewood Campaign) attended Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, an awesome environmental music festival. Neither of us had been to […]
Gathering firewood in Oregon?
Dear Don't Move Firewood, I know we shouldn't take firewood with us when we travel to camp. Could you help provide resources to let us know rules and regs. to collecting firewood in different areas? Thanks, Oregonian Dear Oregonian, The answer is very dependent on where you are going. In Oregon, there is no […]
All the ways we talk to you!
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 […]
The pallet to firewood pest connection
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 […]
Beetle time!
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 […]
Preventing pest entry on plants
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 […]
The Asian spongy moth problem
The Asian spongy moth attacks many hardwood or deciduous trees as well as several conifers, including Douglas fir, hemlock, larch, pine, and spruce. Since the female Asian spongy moths can fly – unlike the European spongy moth already widespread in the Northeast USA– it spreads more rapidly. Asian spongy moths are found in the Russian […]