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Firewood and Invasive Pests

Protect Our Copse! - Use Local Firewood

Moving untreated firewood is one of the main ways invasive pests and diseases spread to new areas. Many people take woods from their backdrop as they head out to camp, chase, etc., but most don't realize their woods may be hiding the eggs, larvae, spores, adults, or fifty-fifty seeds of invasive threats. Transporting infested firewood allows invasives to spread farther and faster than they would have on their own. In 2009, a regulation (leaves December website) was enacted to prevent this adventitious and often long-distance spread by limiting the transport of firewood.

The New York Land Firewood Regulation

Vehicle transporting firewood that could incorporate
tree-killing invasive pests

The regulation pertains to all species of woods, cut or not cutting, split or non split, that is destined for use as fuel. Logs would only be subject to the regulation if their intended use is as firewood.

• Untreated firewood may not be imported into NY from whatever other state or country.
• Untreated firewood grown in NY may not exist transported more than 50 miles (linear distance) from its source or origin unless it has been heat-treated to 71° C (160° F) for 75 minutes.
• When transporting firewood, the following documentation is required:
  • If transporting untreated firewood cutting for personal use (i.e. non for auction) you must fill out a Cocky-Issued Certificate of Origin (PDF).
  • If purchasing and transporting untreated firewood, it must have a receipt or characterization that identifies the firewood source. NOTE! Source is sometimes, simply not always, the aforementioned as where it was purchased. Consumers need to use the source to determine how far the firewood may be transported.
  • If purchasing and transporting heat-treated firewood, it must accept a receipt or characterization that says, "New York Approved Rut-Treated Firewood/Pest Gratis". This is the producers' declaration that the firewood meets New York's rut-treatment requirements. Most "kiln-drying" processes meet the standard, but not all, so it is important to wait for the appropriate label. Heat-treated firewood may exist moved unrestricted.

How to Discover Out if Your Destination is inside Regulation Distance when Transporting Untreated Firewood

Visit our interactive map (leaves Dec website) to encounter if your destination is within regulation distance. This map should be used on a desktop computer or tablet. A mobile-friendly version is coming soon.

If your destination is within an acceptable distance, you must fill out a Cocky-Issued Certificate of Origin (PDF).

What the Firewood Regulation Means

Why Firewood is Regulated

Firewood is oftentimes moved long-distances by people and, as seen with emerald ash borer in Michigan, new infestations are often found in and effectually campgrounds. Although wood pests can move in any infested woods materials, logs being transported to forest-using industries are often put through manufacturing processes (debarking, sawing, kiln-drying, chipping, pulping, etc.) that are adequate in eliminating any pests that may accept tagged along.

How Source and Origin Differ

Origin is where the woods was grown. Source was specifically created for producers of firewood since many learn their wood from multiple origins. A firewood producer may collect wood grown within 50 miles of their business and so declare their business as the source. They must keep records for at least ii years detailing the amount of wood collected and from where, and they must provide labels or receipts to their customers with their business concern address and contact information. See an example of source documentation for a producer (PDF).

For further definitions of terms like firewood, firewood dealer, firewood producer, etc., run across legal documentation (leaves DEC website).

How Long You Should Retain Proof of Source, Origin, or Oestrus Treatment

Don't Move Firewood posters are a great tool
for sharing this message with the
public (leaves DEC website).

Source, origin, or heat handling documentation are required during transport and may be discarded once the firewood has arrived at its destination. If people plan on moving firewood to multiple sites, they should retain documentation until all the firewood is used. No documentation is needed for firewood that is used on the aforementioned property from where it is cut, unless it is transported on public roads from one expanse of the property to another.

Seasoning and Kiln-Drying: Not Necessarily Acceptable Treatments

Seasoning firewood is not an acceptable treatment. For kiln-drying, it depends.

Seasoning firewood (storing it cutting and piled and letting it air-dry for a menses of time) is not a proven way to eliminate potential invasive insects or diseases and is not an acceptable treatment for firewood that will be transported abroad from its source or origin.

Kiln-drying alone is not regulated, significant times and temperatures vary between producers. The process does not necessarily raise the internal temperature of the firewood to 71° C (160° F) for 75 minutes, which is required to exist considered heat-treated.

Pests & Threats That Can Spread Through Firewood

Almost every native New York tree species is susceptible to set on by one or more exotic pests. Some of these insects and diseases are already known to be present in parts of New York, and some are threatening us from others states or regions, and still others have yet to find their way to the Us (that we know of).

Some invasive pests of concern and their respective hosts:

• Asian loghorned beetle - maple, birch, ash, sycamore, poplar, willow, elm, hackberry, mount ash, horsechestnut
• Oak wilt - oak, particularly cherry-red oak
• Emerald ash borer - all ash species (white, blackness, green)
• Asian gypsy moth - over 500 hosts including oak, basswood, birch, poplar, alder, willow, larch, hemlock, pine, and spruce
• Calorie-free dark-brown apple moth - apple, oak, pine, poplar, walnut
• Brown spruce longhorned beetle - spruce

Boosted Efforts to Prevent the Spread of Forest Pests

Restrictions on Firewood in Other States and Countries

Several states and jurisdictions have imposed regulations on the movement and/or importation of firewood for the same purposes that New York Land has. Firewood regulations currently exist in various forms in Pennsylvania, Vermont, Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Maryland. Many other states are considering like actions and have outreach and awareness campaigns asking users not to movement firewood. The Canadian government has had a ban in effect for several years on the import of any firewood into that country that has non been heat-treated to their specifications.

Quarantines

Federal and state quarantines for individual pests (such as oak wilt and Asian longhorned protrude, for example) regulate host materials for those species. You lot must follow the more restrictive rules for firewood transport betwixt the quarantine and the firewood regulation. If you tin move fifty miles before reaching the boundary of a quarantine, then the firewood regulation prohibits further motility of the woods. If you achieve a quarantine boundary before you reach 50 miles, and then the quarantine superseded the regulation, preventing farther movement. Equally quarantines are expanded, lifted, etc., the NYS firewood regulation will go along to be in event.

Enforcement, Violations, & Penalties

Any law enforcement officeholder tin can enforce this regulation. This includes NYSDEC Ecology Conservation Officers, NYSDEC Forest Rangers, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Park Police, NYS Section of Agriculture and Markets Horticultural Inspectors, and any other state, county, or local constabulary officer.

Under the Environmental Conservation Police, violations of these regulations are subject to a $250 fine, plus a $100 ceremonious penalty and upward to 15 days in jail. Untreated firewood found being moved in violation of this regulation may exist ordered to exist returned to its source/origin or confiscated and destroyed by police enforcement officers.

Think, failing to follow the regulation could pb to greater impacts beyond a ticket fee:

• Death of trees in your favorite campground, along your street, or in your yard
• Loss of copse and woods habitats that are critical to many species of wildlife including some rare, threatened, and endangered species
• Untold ecological impacts from the loss of entire species (akin to the loss of American chestnut or American elm)
• Millions of dollars required to removed infested or dead trees from campgrounds, yards, parks, playgrounds, and community streets
• Millions of dollars in liability exposure for public and private property owners from expressionless and dying trees

If you have any questions regarding the firewood regulation, please electronic mail us at foresthealth@december.ny.gov or telephone call our toll-free number at ane-866-640-0652.

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Source: https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/28722.html