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Firewood is any wooden material that is gathered and used for fuel. Generally, firewood is not heavily processed and is in some sort of recognizable log or branch form, compared to other forms of wood fuel like pellets. Firewood can be seasoned and heat treated (dry) or unseasoned (fresh/wet). It is generally classified as either hardwood or ...
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 22% of U.S. households in rural areas use firewood or wood pellets as their primary heat source in the winter, equating to about 1.7 ...
The Healthy Forests Initiative (HFI), officially the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108–148 (text)), is a law proposed by President George W. Bush following the forest fires of 2002 which was devastatingly widespread.
Within an ordinance is a list of land use designations commonly known as zoning. Each different type of zone has its own set of allowed uses. These are known as by-right uses. Then there is an extra set of uses known as special uses. To build a use that is listed as a special use, a special-use permit (or conditional-use permit) must be obtained.
Host Zach Urness talks about a program that allows harvesting plants from national and state forests and replanting them in your own backyard.
The paper industry was second at 6.5 billion BTU per employee. Each of these handles energy sources as part of their raw materials (fossil fuels and wood). [91] The same survey found that half of the electric use was to drive machines and about 10% each for heating, cooling and electro-chemical processes.
Case history; Prior: Cowpasture River Pres. Ass'n v. Forest Serv., 911 F.3d 150 (4th Cir. 2018), cert. granted, 140 S. Ct. 36 (2019). Holding; Because the Department of the Interior’s decision to assign responsibility over the Appalachian Trail to the National Park Service did not transform the land over which the Trail passes into land within the National Park System, the Forest Service had ...
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