Hi everyone I have not posted here in this forum for a long time maybe never. I have a question and thought that maybe this would be the place to post it. I have a 70 acre wood lot of mixed growth and I have beach blight in it. We solely burn wood for heat this fall like every fall while hunting I keep an eye out for a place to cut firewood this winter. I have seen a lot of my beach infected with this blight and I plan on cutting as much as I can of it each year for firewood. My question is once cut and I try to split it will I find out it is nothing but punk inside? I will post a few pictures of some I saw this am right close to each other beside a woods road of mine. I have some Beach that are 14-20" on the stump that are very large tall and healthy and I want them to stay that way as long as possible. I thought clearing out some of the infected growth close to them may help that happen. Thanks for you thoughts Jeff