Going camping this summer? Do one thing: Leave your firewood at home. Whenever you bring firewood from home on a camping trip, you risk bringing tree-killing insects and diseases with you. If the firewood you have at home has invasive insects, they can crawl out and infect trees at the campsite, which can have a devastating impact on the forest you're visiting. This was one way the highly invasive emerald ash borer was spread, which resulted in the death of hundreds of millions of ash trees. If you do burn firewood when camping, buy it locally, within 50 miles of the campsite.
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