Firewood quarantined

[Ashful]

I'm not saying the same amount of people still burn 30 cords per year in an open fireplac. Of all the people living in this county today the same amount of wood is being burned in high polluting wood burning appliances (non EPA stuff) as was burned in open fireplaces across the US in 1800. It might seem like EPA Wood burning appliances are the majority in this country, but the legacy of the 70's energy crisis lives on. I see countless houses in my county burning smoke dragons of all shapes and sizes. Most don't even split the firewood until it's time to put it in the stove. You guys are functioning under the assumption that all of today's wood burners are being responsible. No sector of this planet has responsible human beings on it.

We are in agreement on that!

Hey, what do you guys think of this Walnut? It leafs out a few weeks later than its immediate neighbors. Never noticed, until I build a chicken coop at its base.

It’s a fairly big double trunk job, real confined space between coop and other trees, would be a real technical take-down, if it comes to that.

It has something bugging it:

 

[SpaceBus]

We are in agreement on that!

Hey, what do you guys think of this Walnut? It leafs out a few weeks later than its immediate neighbors. Never noticed, until I build a chicken coop at its base.

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It’s a fairly big double trunk job, real confined space between coop and other trees, would be a real technical take-down, if it comes to that.

It has something bugging it:

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After seeing your photos, I might have a walnut on my property. It's full of holes though. If I remember I'll take more photos next time I see it. This thing is really gnarly in an open area in the middle of the woods.

 

[Pinus strobus]

Just another catastrophe. I walked a trail with my young kids today through some mature timber. Ash were sick with the borer and beach affected with beach scale. I know what is coming for the hemlock. Oak wilt and Asian longhorn Beetle with take care much of the rest amongst other threats. It saddens me to know that my children’s children will never know the forest as I do. Global trade is killing the environment. Enjoy while you can. Most people have no clue as to what is going on.

 

[Simonkenton]

ashful, that looks just like the dead black walnuts on my property here in North Carolina. White bark on the trunk.
I think you got a problem.

 

[Ashful]

ashful, that looks just like the dead black walnuts on my property here in North Carolina. White bark on the trunk.
I think you got a problem.

Maybe. I’m really not sure. BWs always get lichen and other green and white growths on their bark in wet weather. We have had near Biblical levels of rain for two straight years. Entire parts of my yard have turned to permanent swamp. So, I’m concerned, but not panicked, yet.

What is the time scale of this thing? How long after seeing the white bark did the rest of the tree nosedive?

 

[Kevin Weis]

Yea I think that's lichen on the trees. With all the rain will probably see more of that.

 

[Simonkenton]

I took this close up this morning of the deceased black walnut tree.
You can see on the lower part of the trunk the lichen which occur on a healthy tree. They are green mixed with white.
On the upper part of the trunk you can see the white bark which is the sign of a real sick, or dead, tree.

 

[Kevin Weis]

Okay, I see now. That's a little different. We haven't had enough Black Walnut diseases to kill them off yet around here or to get that white bark on them. The ash will get a light tan color from the EAB and the birds flecking off the outer bark to try to get to them. The more light tan bark there is on it the more diseased it is.

 

[Ashful]

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I took this close up this morning of the deceased black walnut tree.
You can see on the lower part of the trunk the lichen which occur on a healthy tree. They are green mixed with white.
On the upper part of the trunk you can see the white bark which is the sign of a real sick, or dead, tree.

Got it. Thank you for posting that.

 

[Kevin Weis]

Since it's been dead for a while the bark should peel off of it a little easier when its cut. Maybe.

 

[georgepds]

Re deforestation

Here in the Northeast I always heard the forests were torn up for farming, not wood heat. Here the story goes once people saw the good land in other parts of the country (during the civil war) they packed up and left for less stony pastures

By the time I arrived in the second half if the twentieth century, the forests had all regrown, You can still see the stone walls in the low hills where people tried to scratch out a living

Don't know if it's true or not

 

[Kevin Weis]

Georgepds, all that is true. At least in most areas of the mid-Atlantic and the hills/mountains therein. The invention of the circular saw blade helped that along just prior to the Civil War. The only thing old growth left is what was planted or left for trees around homes built at that time.

 

[SpaceBus]

Georgepds, all that is true. At least in most areas of the mid-Atlantic and the hills/mountains therein. The invention of the circular saw blade helped that along just prior to the Civil War. The only thing old growth left is what was planted or left for trees around homes built at that time.

I've yet to see any old growth here near the coast, but I doubt there is any.

 

[bholler]

I've yet to see any old growth here near the coast, but I doubt there is any.

We have several areas of virgin forest near us. One used to be an amazing area full of hundreds of old growth hemlocks with a full canopy. Now there are 5 left alive because of the wolly adelgid. It is really sad my kids never got to see it in its glory.