“Gas heat primary with wood pellet stoves/aux generator at The Homestead. Used to just have a central wood stove plus the living room fireplace, but BLM and Forest “Service” have screwed up wood supplies so bad I switched.”
Help me out-who is BLM and how does one screw up wood supplies???
Bureau of Land Management.
They often make it impossible to harvest wood, including wood that has already been downed by natural forces.
BLM = Bureau of Land Management, an agency charged with management of Federal land. Especially in forested and grazing lands in the Rocky Mountain states.
Up until the 90’s, used to see commercial logging as well as individuals gleaning out the deadfall or trash trees for firewood on both BLM and Forest “Service” land.
EcoNazis filed a bunch of suits to “protect the environment” that killed commercial logging (among others), it became fashionable to declare everything in sight a Wilderness Area, the bureaucrats in BLM and NFS went from managing to controlling and along with closing out all those rich villainous businesses, the public got shut out of their ability to go cut firewood.
So no loggers go in to harvest trees, nobody cleans up the slash n’ trash for their home woodpile and the woods just stand there and get clogged up with all that overgrowth and deadfall until there’s a lightning strike and the whole place burns right down to below root lines.
I’d say that’s fairly screwed up.