A federal regulation that has effectively stopped people from bringing Canadian firewood into the United States isn’t interfering with shipments of whole logs burned as firewood here.
As of Aug. 1, U.S. border patrol officials must confiscate cut firewood from Canada that hasn’t been heat-treated.
Ann Furgeson, plant health coordinator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said the nationwide rule is aimed at insects for which the U.S. has quarantines, including gypsy moths and longhorn…
