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lne rekindled interest in wood as a fuel, especially in the home, offers many private landowners an opportunity to begin converting their hardwood weed-patch forests into valuable timber, according to Southern Forest Institute.
Don Smith, SFI’sdirectorof forest resources, says, “Landowners should use low grade, diseased and deformed trees as Firewood, rather than sacrificing healthy, straight trees that will be more valuable later. Too often, potentially valuable trees are sacrificed for firewood because they're easier to harvest and sell.”
Removing the poorest trees provides more room and sunlight for improved growth of the better trees left standing.
Smith went on, “Many landowners inherited woodlots, which are often made up of inferior trees. Practicing sound forest management previously may have been economically impossible. Now they have a market for the inferior trees,
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