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Camping in the fall in Indiana seems like a good time to haul away and burn off excess hardwood firewood that has accumulated in our yards, farmlots and construction sites. It may be efficient, but it can be deadly for ash trees in state forests if the firewood is transported from one quarantined county to another.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has warned for several years that the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that attacks ash trees, can hitchhike to state forests and protected natural areas. The DNR asks that campers help keep the emerald ash borer out of state camping properties by not bringing hardwood firewood to the state campgrounds.
Emerald ash borer is devastating to ash trees, killing millions in Michigan, Ohio, northeastern Indiana and several other states in the past few years.
To help manage EAB and preserve the shade, campers should not bring any type of hardwood firewood with them from any Indiana county under EAB quarantine. The list of quarantine counties can be found at www.IN.gov/dnr/entomolo/5349.htm .
To help manage EAB and preserve the shade, campers should not bring any type of hardwood firewood with them from any Indiana county under EAB quarantine. The list of quarantine counties can be found at www.IN.gov/dnr/entomolo/5349.htm .
Hardwood firewood of any type, not just ash, may not be brought into any Indiana state park, reservoir or state forest campground.
Visitors may bring pine or scrap, kiln-dried lumber, or packaged firewood that has a federal certification label or a state-compliance agreement label, or campers may purchase firewood after entering the state property. Other wood can be confiscated at the gate.
The federal government also has prohibited firewood from being brought to Indiana from Michigan, Ohio or Illinois, or from parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Missouri, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia. Federal quarantine locations can be found on the Web at www.IN.gov/dnr/parklake/files/ep-MultiState_EABpos_20090401.pdf .
More information on emerald ash borer is found on the Web at www.entm.purdue.edu/EAB .
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