[GBlist] burning wood, was RFH and back-up system

[Sacie H Lambertson <dlambert@grasshoppernet.com>]

Several have responded to the suggestion that it might be considered
slightly immoral to burn wood, or at the least, that the practice is
ungreen.  In some parts of the country where the population is more crowded
and where wood stoves are most commonly used, there can be a polutant
problem--eg in Missoula Mt.--or where there are temperature inversions,
such as Denver Colo., but here on 80 acres of mostly trees in NE Kansas in
a county of 14,000 people, I don't worry too much about it.  Not many folks
in Kansas use wood as there sole source of heat.  
	Furthermore, I know even the most efficient wood burning stove is not
terribly efficient, but for us the fuel is free, the cutting of it is what
I like best to do in the winter, (we have a log splitter), and most
importantly, the trees on this land need desperately to be thinned to allow
some to grow tall and straight and large.  We are very good keepers of our
land and I'm afraid I have no apologies for using the wood on it this way;
aside from the aesthetics of the practice, we are greatly improving our
property.   BTW, our nearest neighbor is 1/2 mile away as the crow flies.
Sacie Lambertson

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