To save real money by heating at the fireplace, it is necessary to avoid buying wood. Finding free firewood may be currently easier than employment, and networking is important to each. Fresh, live wood is more desirable than deadwood for reasons of cleanliness and safety. Payment is conferred by woodlot maintenance provided the landowner and satisfaction from benefiting wildlife.

While forests in South America are being clear cut at alarming rates, in Eastern North America and Europe forest regrowth is increasing. Small farms continue to fail with land fallowed and orchards abandoned. Large farms clear and combine by opening ditch and hedgerow to lace once marshy land with drain lines. Professional loggers continue to seek bolts of logs and leave tops behind. Storms have been prevalent and severe, toppling mature trees away from homes. Readers should also read a discussion of "Firewood Heat Pros and Cons."

Locating Free Firewood – Developing a Woodlot Concept

These events present opportunity for those who heat with wood but too often good firewood rots on the ground. Many owners would prefer the wood used but hesitate to advertise availability for fear of strangers on their property and potential liability. Research, the right connection, or a visit to that landowner can mitigate these concerns and net firewood at low or no cost, especially if the woodcutter can demonstrate value stemming from the work.

Selective cutting can improve the property by encouraging trees valuable for timber and firewood and green stocks beneficial to game and other wild visitors. Proper management and brush-pile cleanup of the site will, for instance, increase rabbit population for hunting by human, owl, or hawk.

The burn value of firewood is balanced against the tree value to the property owner and wildlife. Attractive sugar maples are tapped for syrup but throw enough shade to bare the ground beneath, and the seed is a marginal wildlife food source but an old maple may contain several nesting cavities. With a single oak nearby, removing maple will encourage squirrels to plant acorns upon the resultant meadow.

Area sawmills are understandably reluctant to share clients' personal information, so a firewood cutter's prepared flier or card can bridge from mill to property owner. Or an ad in the paper, “firewood wanted. Will maintain your woods in return,” will resonate with a number of people. After finding an area recently cut over, a parcel atlas could identify the owner. And many stores still maintain a public board to post a flier with phone tear-off.

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