Don't forget though, the tree will be topped, pruned or hacked IF it interferes with your neighbors solar panel.
The debate over shade trees vs the environmentalists using solar power is a "6 of one a half dozen of the other" issue for me. Please let the scientists show me which is more environmentally friendly!
Most of the firewood is the by-product of unwanted, unsafe, diseased or dead trees. I imagine that there are people out there that propagate trees for wood down the road. I have never met one, but I am sure they are out there.
The carbon credit issue is a funny thing, in Canada the government considers the carbon to be released as soon as the tree is laying on the ground. It doesn't matter if it is going to be milled and end up standing in the form of a 2X6 in the wall of your house for 70 years.
Hats off to the folks that value-add to the use of the removed trees, using the wood to create heat is a far cry better than filing the landfills with it!
