Is it illegal to chop down trees for firewood use in your nearby woods?
i live in a town house and its a pretty small neighborhood and theres a few tree huggin residents. WE live in a pretty country side area and once u cross this road its big city. So there is a lot of wood. so cant i just go into the woods and just chop down trees? im 17 and today i was makin the fireplace and my mom always bought wood from some guy that drives to our house every winter. I mean i like this old way of getting heat. im 17 and was raised in this kinda tech era, but i hate touch screens. i despise touch screens, and im alreayd behind with all this crap. so i was wondering if maybe i can just go chopping some trees with a big axe-no chain saw. just axe. And split it up and make a lot of firewood and make a crude post and start stacking firewood and make a roof for it so it can dry for next years winter. and i live in Virginia...and Virginia...has so many stupid laws...so idk man..maybe choppin down some trees is illegal now idk. im not some white dude in a suit trynna make some money in brazil and chop down a rain forest. thanks if its legal, ill figure out which trees are the best for firewood and ill only cut down the almost dead ones.
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1 :
if the woods belong to you --go for it! If not keep you s....n' hand off
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as someone said,, if it is your wood,,,, cut all you want,,,if it is someone elses property,, keep off,,,,,, I think you would be ok if you took deadwood or broken branches
3 :
cutting wood on someone else's property is stealing and tresspassing. How would you like someone breaking into your room and stealing your stuff. If it belongs to the city, they have someone who decides what to do with the wood and trees. Usually it is an arborist. The trees belong to everyone and he is hired to manage them for the good of everyone. Sometimes you can get permission to cut wood on public property. Here in Oregon, the forest service sells permits to cut wood in designated areas.
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You wanna get shot for tresspassing? How about going to jail? It is owned by someone. You need to get permission from the land owner, be it private or government. People pay taxes on that property. Why do you feel its ok to steal? Get permission there first, and you and the blue ox can chop without doing it in the dark!
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Cutting trees that might not belong to you is a pretty risky business. It is one of the cases where the owner can put the value on the property. That tree could end up costing you a lot of money.
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First find out who owns the trees and go ask him if it's all right to cut some down, otherwise you are a big time trespasser.
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Every one else pretty much covered the legalities, but if all your using is an ax don't worry. You will run out of enthusiasm before you can do much damage. Chopping and splitting even one medium size tree with unpowered hand tools is more work than I have seen any teenager do in years.
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I think everyone got the message across. If it isn't on your property it's not yours for the taking. The reason it's better to buy the wood from the guy that does the chopping is that wood probably been dried for some time before he sells it. There is a big difference in a fire built with wet wood and one with dry wood. If you have a legal area to chop you should know what you should and shouldn't chop. Why not talk to the 'GUY' that brings you wood every year? It's probably his livelihood so he knows the correct way and you just might learn a thing or two.
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You go into forests and find fallen dead trees and dead branches. bring those home and if they are not dry enough, store them in a large trash can with the lid on until they are dry enough to use in a fire place or stove. There are sometimes alot of dead fallen trees and broken branches laying on the forest ground which would be better to use rather than killing a
nd chopping down a tree that is still alive. Trees take a "long" time to get to the size they are at, chopping down alot of living trees all of the time would make the forest an empty/ugly disaster.
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It really depends if the land is actually your property or not. If the land is owned by you, then feel free to chop down firewood! You may also need a rack to hold it.
