Free firewood available as part of Cerro Grande Fire Rehab project

Logs suitable for use as firewood are chopped, split and stacked in preparation for the Cerro Grande Fire Rehabilitation Project's firewood giveaway program. Parties interested in picking up free firewood can register at firewood@lanl.gov online and will be notified by phone when and where to pick up their load of wood. Every Friday the CGRP releases the wood at its firewood distribution center near Technical Area 16. To date, more than 1,100 cords of split forewood have been given away. On average about 60 truckloads are released each week.

Wood cleared from Laboratory property that is unsuitable for the Cerro Grande Rehabilitation Project's giveaway program is burned in an Air Curtain Destructor, a system that uses a special configuration of blowers to aid in the burning process and reduce the production of smoke and other particles. The system consumes approximately 20 tons of wood per hour. Currently more than 2,200 acres of Laboratory woodland have been thinned since November 2001. The CGRP's goal is to eventually thin more than 10,000 acres. Photos by Kevin N. Roark, Public Affairs

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