Recognising/Identifying Punk Wood & More

Last October, we stayed at a campground in the Grand Canyon. There are rules about not using any dead wood laying about for your campfire. Instead, we had to buy small cords of wood at a nearby campground store. The wood was ridiculously expensive, and did not burn very well. The fires were hard to start with this wood (we went through two bottles of lighter fluid trying to assist) and did not last long.

It would have been so much nicer to use punk wood or small pieces on the ground in the trees around us. I guess there was a reason for not picking up dead wood lying there, but I have no idea what it could be.