Asian borers killed all the ash trees here in Indiana so that hardwood is in good supply currently.
We don’t have those yet that I know of.
We have some ash trees and I have not seen them yet.
Unfortunately, I heard that when the ash trees are gone, the ash borers go after other hardwood trees.
Look for morels under those trees.
Just went through a pretty big forest fire here at my place (burned right up to the back door), Cal Fire and the USFS put a crap load of cat lines around my property and on the all the ridge lines.
Mostly Black Oak, Blue Oak, Douglas fir, and Ponderosa pine. Those boys took their Caterpillar tractors and just pushed them down, regardless of size.
Made great big windrows of perfectly good hard and softwood future fire wood for me, I started cutting up the oak wood 3 days ago and probably have ten years worth of work to do on the the firelines.
I figure about 150 to 200 years worth of fire wood out there, even as fast as my wife can burn it!