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Message Subject Urgent! California fires updates!! 42 casualties! Winds 40 to 70 mph!! Day 3! Extreme fire conditions today for San Diego!
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I spent a lot of summers in Paradise as a child. I remember how dry it was and the dirt was a fine red dust. Everywhere you looked there were groves of Manzanita. It seemed like an invasive species, really, it was EVERYWHERE.

Certainly good fuel! But where is it now in the "after" pictures? The other trees survived, for the most part, it seems. It's as if it was introduced just for that purpose:

MANZANITA
Arctostaphylos viscida
Manzanita firewood or wood for smoking

Manzanita firewood burns long and very hot. Manzanita is a shrub or small tree in the Western US that typically only reaches a height of 6′-8′ tall. Pieces will typically be small and usually crooked, but this dense hardwood will put out a lot of heat, so use it with caution, I have seen stoves glow red from loading it up with too much of this wood. When burning it in a stove, it’s best to build small fires or mix it with other species of wood.

Manzanita firewood will produce a nice bed of coals that will radiate intense heat. Be careful if you stir the coals because they can crackle and throw glowing hot cinders when disturbed. It’s an intense firewood species, but when used with caution it can make excellent firewood.

[link to firewoodresource.com]
 Quoting: sseess



It's not an invasive species.

Interesting info about Manzanita here:

[link to sierrafoothillgarden.com]
 
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