Stacking firewood is pleasant work. It’s quiet and even contemplative. The hard and sometimes dangerous work of felling trees and bucking them with a chainsaw is done. The laborious splitting by hand ...

In 2012, I spent a season on a wildland firefighting crew based just outside California’s Sequoia National Park. Our first assignment wasn’t a wildfire but a cleanup project at Devils Postpile ...

The English philosopher Francis Bacon famously advised: “Age appears to be best in four things – old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.” I couldn’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chopping and stacking firewood is like putting money into a high-interest savings account – you have to wait to enjoy it but it’s ...