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

["Steven Shepard" <sbtdesigns@earthlink.net>]

I won't be the judge as to whether it is immoral to burn wood or not but I
do know that I have 3.5 acres of live oak trees that shed limbs faster than
I can cut them.  Mother nature must want me to do something productive with
all that wood.  Winters down here don't last long enough to burn it all and
I don't have enough time or energy to cut it all.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sacie H Lambertson" <dlambert@grasshoppernet.com>
To: <greenbuilding@crest.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:00 PM
Subject: [GBlist] burning wood, was RFH and back-up system


> 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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