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Originally Posted by Rocky7
Tamarac.
We burn several cords a winter and there's way less ash than either poplar, spruce or pine. Easier on the chimney than birch. Very hot, too. It's a bugger to split, though, so unless you have access to a hydraulic splitter, I'd go with something else.
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Everything you say about Tamarac is correct from my experience.
We used it for cooking, in the old cook stove, when we could get it.
Problem is, there isn't many places where one can find good firewood size Tamarac. Harder still is finding dead Tamarac and green Tamarac is a bear to cure.