With camping season here, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources is encouraging campers to buy firewood from where they will burn it instead of bringing it from home.
Plenty of firewood is available locally to your favorite state or county park. Ask a park ranger or campground host where you can get local firewood. Make sure you burn all of your firewood at your campsite, don’t leave it or transport it to a new area.
The state agriculture department requires all firewood sold or acquired in Iowa to have the county and state of harvest location on the label of packages and the delivery ticket for bulk firewood.
Moving unseasoned firewood around the state can threaten the health of the forests by spreading insects like the emerald ash borer, oak wilt, or other pests that live in firewood.
