Tag Archives: harvesting firewood

For months I’ve been dreaming of the perfect “last tree,” which would provide us with the last firewood to be harvested before winter. This tree would need to be fairly large, to top off the growing pile of winter firewood … Continue reading →

When we returned from an overnight Thanksgiving celebration last November, we found a tree above our cabin had broken in the wind. As often happens in this forest’s ecology, shelf fungus had rotted a section of the lower trunk, weakening, … Continue reading →