What is the Environmental Impact of Burning Wood?

[rsallen]

Did I sound miffed 2Lane?
Sorry to have gotten your panties in a bunch over semantics.

What I care about now is that I can't find my **** tape measure..........s***t I know it's around here someplace.

 

[Barry 1]

No permit in Kentucky,unless it is a local ordinance? If it's fire season, you can only burn from 6pm-6am,and have to stay there till it's out.(also have to be 150' away from woods,and where it can't spread to woods)

 

[Stick895]

Back in tha day, people burned their leaves in the Fall, for a couple of weeks the afternoon and evening air was perfumed with the smell of burning leaves. Then they prohibited the burning on environmental grounds. Now people and landscape companies use gas powered or electric blowers/vacuums to bag them up and truck them to a landfill. I'm not sure that the emissions from the blowers, vacuums, and trucks, let alone the power plants that power the electric ones pollute majorly less than just burning them did. Not an ideological argument, just an observation.

 

[/pine]

All of the carbon that was sequestered in the wood will be released slowly over time if left to rot, whereas if you burn it, it gets released now. Its gonna get released sooner or later. Ask the Conservationist-September 2010 | The Nature Conservancy

I did not see them mention Methane...which I understand is one of the primary gasses emitted by decaying organic matter?...Methane also happens to be about 20X heavier than Carbon Dioxide...

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Did I sound miffed 2Lane?
Sorry to have gotten your panties in a bunch over semantics.

What I care about now is that I can't find my **** tape measure..........s***t I know it's around here someplace.

Yes, you sounded miffed...and while I appreciate the metaphor, I would probably say that it is the natural way of a thread to wander up and down a few rabbit trails as it approaches it's final denouement, and it is mildly irritating to me to be chided for trying to participate, and to perhaps enlighten, the participants.

Too bad you don't live closer; I would gladly share. I have probably 5 or 6 different tape measures (not including yard/metric sticks) placed strategically about my shop, garage and in an emergency, I can go to my wife's sewing room and retrieve one of her measuring tapes.

 

[SPYDERLK]

I am curious as to what what TBN'ers have to do to obtain permission for the outdoor burning of vegetative debris (leaves, limbs, etc.) in their respective states.

Weather permitting (i.e., no bans due to forest-fire risks), I can obtain a one-day permit via an automated phone system in SC and a multi-day permit via online application in NC. Both situations are outside city limits.

The application processes differ for controlled burns of forest tracts.

Steve

I can just go out and burn it. After 4pm restriction in dry times.
larry

 

[tcartwri]

don't ask, don't tell....

 

[houstonscott]

What's the impact of a forest fire? Man and what an idiot would call nature are the same thing, so impact is zero. HS

 

[rsallen]

Where did I ever direct a post toward YOU before YOU elected to pick me out of this hodgepodge line up 2LANE?

Maybe you'd happy with the ribbon clerks tape measure your wife may have........ I'm not.

 

[Coyote machine]

Entrophy. Second law of thermodynamics ~ matter cannot be created nor destroyed, it can only change phase. Essentially everything that is matter goes from a higher energy to a lower one, thus decay. Dinosaurs, man, trees, all change phase to a lower level, then to dust. We are all doomed, including the EPA and all wood burners. Forest fires are a natural phenomenon, and occur on a regular basis. Regulating smoke from stoves/chimneys may or not make a huge amount of sense depending on the local air quality, but regulating the amount of smoke to keep if out of someone else's face may come to pass similar to secondhand cigarette smoke. Some may want to actually breath clean air, since regulating the amount of smoke from my fire may make it possible for my neighbors to breath easier.