{"id":2965,"date":"2024-09-15T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/?post_type=encyclopedia&#038;p=2965"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:59:23","slug":"woodcutting","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/kb\/woodcutting\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodcutting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Woodcutting<\/strong> refers firewood harvest as part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/kb\/forestry-stewardship\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Forestry Stewardship is a program under Camp Deerpark's Stewardship Initiative tasked with managing the approximately 360 acres of forest owned by the Camp. Like all Stewardship programming, Forestry stewardship sees humans as part of creation that have a unique God-ordained role in managing living things and resources according to his way and will. The current program was founded in 1997 by members of the North Bronx Mennonite Owner Church and friends who began to advise Camp on sustainable practices informed by work on community forest management by Dr. Chuck Peters (see this history). Projects 10% Inventory -- from 1998-2000 approximately&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Forestry Stewardship<\/a> program.  Typically, youth and young adult Volunteer Groups harvest, haul, split, and stack <a href=\"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/kb\/firewood\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Firewood is used by Camp Deerpark for campfires and heating via the Wood Doctor Outdoor Wood Boiler (OWB). It is sources from Standing Deadwood and TSI Trees (Timber Stand Improvement) found and flagged by Maintenance or Forestry Stewardship Team personnel. Typically, the wood for heating is cut, hauled in, split and stacked by youth &amp; adult Volunteer Groups in the Fall and Winter and stored in the Wood Doctor cover connected to The Sugar Shack. Campfire wood may be made from construction sources or brought in by Volunteers or Maintenance personnel. Information and Specifications Storage for Heat Wood: the Wood&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Firewood<\/a> for heating purposes in the Fall and Winter. The target amount of wood is 40+ cords. Historically, Mercersburg Mennonite, Bowmansville Mennonite, and Conestoga Mennonite have participated.  In more recent years, a community of families and young adults from the area around camp have participated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Threads<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related Threads use with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/threads\/topic-tag\/woodcutting\/\">Woodcutting<\/a><\/em> tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[181,180,122],"encyclopedia-category":[79,341,121,331],"class_list":["post-2965","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","tag-energy","tag-firewood","tag-program","encyclopedia-category-grounds","encyclopedia-category-land-stewardship","encyclopedia-category-program","encyclopedia-category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5233,"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/2965\/revisions\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/campdeerpark.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-category?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}