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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Campfires and Firewood
 

Campfires
• Fires are permitted only at designated campgrounds and picnic areas. In picnic areas, visitors must bring and use their own grills.
• Boaters in river campsites may have campfires in existing metal fire rings only.

 

Firewood
Use local firewood only (See quarantine below)
• Down (on the ground) and dead wood only may be collected only in areas immediately adjacent to developed campgrounds and river campsites.
• Cutting down trees that are dead but still standing is prohibited.

 

QUARANTINE

To reduce the spread of destructive non-native insects, there is a quarantine on firewood from all areas outside the park.

Do NOT bring firewood from your home or from outside the park into the park.
When camping, use only firewood from local sources.
If you have brought in wood from outside the park, check with a ranger or with your campground operator about its proper disposal. You may be asked to burn all of it at your site. Do NOT bring leftover firewood home with you or bring it to another campground.

Firewood at the group campsites will be provided by the park from its hazardous tree cutting program. Local firewood may be purchased at Dingmans Campground PA.

 

Information Sources

Additional information from the
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 
Asian long horned beetle | Emerald ash-borer | Plant Health

USDA Forest Service-Northeast on Forest Health Protection

N.Y. State Dept. of Environmental Conservation 
(Search "firewood")

University of Vermont Entomology Research Laboratory
Asian longhorned beetle

Midwestern States and Universities combined website on
Emerald ash borer

asian longhorned beetle
BULLETIN:
Firewood Pests
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View of the sky through hemlock treetops  

Did You Know?
... that hemlock groves in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area are threatened by a non-native insect, the hemlock woolly adelgid. Hemlocks provide shade for spectacular rhodondenron, for trout streams, and for native wildflowers. As hemlocks weaken and die, they are cut down for your safety.
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Last Updated: July 08, 2009 at 17:15 EST