In 2012, I spent a season on a wildland firefighting crew based just outside California’s Sequoia National Park. Our first assignment wasn’t a wildfire but a cleanup project at Devils Postpile ...

Residents take pride in their timber piles, debate best techniques News is obsessed with the flashy questions: “Is God Dead?” “Who Killed Kennedy?” “What is a Kardashian?” Yet for years, a quieter ...

A stack of firewood is one of those things that's often more practical than it is pretty. Its primary purpose is to keep that cut wood handy and out of the way until you're ready to use it. But an ...

Each Thanksgiving, Fred Bogner, his grandfather and son gather to fell a tree or two, split the firewood and stack it before settling down to a well-earned feast. “That’s what we do,” says the ...

Some people bake bread. Others go for long walks. Still others play chess or Scrabble. For me, the best pandemic therapy is making firewood. Weekends this fall found me at a country cabin happily ...

The National Association of State Foresters has published an article debating whether to stack firewood bark up or bark down. They concluded that there are benefits and drawbacks to both ways. When ...

Stacking firewood can be a functional art form if you follow the Amish’s lead for making efficient, pyramid-shaped piles. We observed these pyramid-shaped stacks of firewood while on a tour of Amish ...

Burn wood occasionally and you can tolerate extravagant prices on little bundles at the supermarket. Burn wood more often and you’ll need to buy larger quantities. And as fuel prices continue to ...