Michigan fire wood ban

[oldtimer#1]

Unless I can find Mesquite in the desert, I just use the propane. Not the same ambiance I know but safer and easier to use. I always buy a bag of heat treated Mesquite to take back to Canada for the grandkids campfire.

I just found a propane fire pit on market place,great idea

 

[Vint]

We used to buy the stuff at a local home owner, give the local home owners a little bit of business.

On our last trip to New England and the Adirondacks of NY two weeks ago, I took empty recycling bins with us to buy firewood at roadside stands near the campgrounds where we were staying. Love the self-service honor system of buying wood. This practice meets most state campground standards for using locally sourced wood.

 

[isabellathomas]

The point about beetles carrying disease is the one that matters most in my reading of these rules. Fire risk is real, but moving untreated wood is how pests and pathogens end up in forests that had never seen them, and that damage lasts far longer than a single bad season. On the campground pit question, I'd say the concern isn't usually a well-managed fire in a cleared ring so much as the wood people haul in and whatever gets left behind. Buying local bundles costs more, but it keeps the spread from following us around.

 

[EricMiyako]

They don’t put the bans in place for fun and it’s folks like you that can potentially be a part of the problem. Leave your wood at home and buy a few bundles when you arrive.
Guessing that leash rules and others are something you ignore too.

Sort of like Michigan ignoring immigration laws. If they get to pick which laws to enforce we should be able to do the same.

 

[michaelbrown]

The disease angle is what gets missed in most of these threads. Moving firewood spreads pests and pathogens far more efficiently than people realize, and by the time symptoms show up the damage is already done. That's why "buy it where you burn it" keeps coming up. I get that the wildfire logic can feel stretched for a paved coastal site, but the invasive-species concern applies even where campfires themselves are low risk.