How many species in your stacks?

White ash, soft maple, elm, cherry, pin oak, red oak, white oak, blue beech, beech, thorn apple, scotch pine, white pine and popple. I think this is a complete list but might think of a couple more soon after I post this.... Usually do.

16 (some of these are staples of my stove diet, some are maybe a few days' worth to see how they burn):
Holly (some local variety I ripped out of the yard)
California Black Oak (prior winter breakage)
Canyon Live Oak (prior winter breakage)
California Live Oak (prior winter breakage)
Incense Cedar (prior winter breakage)
Jeffrey Pine (fell across a road)
Ponderosa Pine (prior winter breakage)
Redwood (a planted one in my dad's yard died... not a "local" scrounge)
Red Fir (brought home some pieces from a local campground)
Bull Pine (this goes by a ton of names; it's Pinus Sabiniana from my yard)
Big Berry Manzanita (BLM score)
California Lilac (from my yard)
Buck Brush (from my yard)
California Buckeye (from my yard)
Eucalyptus (breakage from a huge planted tree, also at my dad's place; they're not native here)
California Juniper (breakage from a big tree in my yard)

I'm not fussy when I scrounge. If it is close and relatively easy to get to I will take it and it all burns.
Silver Maple, Red oak, beach, ash, elm, cherry, white pine, scotch pine, red pine, Austrian pine, sassafras and probably others I don't remember or can't identify.

American elm
Black cherry
Green ash
White ash
White pine
Balsam fir
Spruce
White cedar
White birch
Yellow birch
Red oak
Poplar
Black locust
Red maple
Sugar maple?
American beech
Apple

Variety is the spice of life.

Right now the majority is black locust, then red oak, hard and soft maple, cherry, walnut, elm, ash, tulip poplar, persimmon, mulberry and sassafras. In 20 + years of burning I have also had hackberry, white oak, hedge, hickory, Bradford pear, sweetgum and box elder. Never have had beech, would love to try some.

Red Oak
White Oak
Hickory
Black Cherry
Mahaleb Cherry
Ash
Beech
Hard Maple
Birch
Apple
Butternut
Pine
Arborvitae
Hemlock...

We're not prejudiced.

Adabiviak said:

California Lilac (from my yard)

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What is this like to burn? I have a lilac in my yard that is nice but really just a 6 foot high shrub with nice purple flowers but some in town are very, very old and have trunks that are actually tree size.

50% red oak
50% of
sugar maple
soft maple
hickory
black birch
cherry
ash

American, red and siberian elm
Red and white oak
Green and white ash
Black and Honey locust
Silver maple
Sugar maple
Hackberry
Mulberry
Hickory
Apple
Kentucky coffee tree
Black cherry
Russian olive
Box elder
Buckthorn
Black walnut

Hackberry
Black Walnut
Osage Orange

Most to Least:

Black Locust
Red Oak
White Oak
Cherry
Hickory

Ash
Black Locust
Cherry
Hickory
Red Maple
Red Oak
Sycamore
White Oak
and just a tad amount of osage orange

cherry,black locust,honey locust,hard maple,mulberry,silver maple,walnut,a little ash,a little apple,some dead elm,little red oak,and box elder

In no particular order:

Ash
Oak
Maple
pear
locust
cherry
apple
birch
mulberry
walnut
elm
hackberry
linden
poplar

Red oak
Black locust
Beech
Norway maple
Honey locust
Cedar for pit and kindling
Fatwood

water oak
pecan
slash pine for kindling and fire pit use
lighter pine splits 1/4"X4"

Hickory (5 cords), white ash, green ash, oak, sugar maple, silver maple, hackberry, hedge, beech, cherry, and walnut.

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I have to burn everything that falls or dies otherwise I have to rent a big 12" chipper which costs $$$. So, my list is: Ash, red & white Oak, Hickory, Apple, Plum, Black Cherry, Red, Silver, Sugar & Norway Maple, Linden, Black Locust, Black Walnut, Austree, White Birch, Poplar, Elm, Box Elder, White Pine, Red Pine, Sumac - yup I'm burning Sumac that is big enough that it has to be split. The only thing I won't burn is the Scotch Pine & Spruce. I save that for my kids for their fire pit.

Tamarack, Red Fir, Lodge Pole Pine and a little Aspen. Not much good stuff around here but this stuff works fine.

The mainstays at the moment are:

--Oregon white oak: I find that if this is winter-felled and promptly processed, it's fine to go after two summers in the stack.
--Bradford/callery pear: my local tree guy cuts this all the time and it's primo firewood in my opinion.
--Black locust: not native here, but the aforementioned tree dude has it often and I have a cord-plus currently aging.
--Douglas fir: the staple wood of many here in the Pacific Northwest; I like it and it seasons fast and burns readily.
--White ash: had a tree go down on the property this year which yielded almost a cord. Great wood but not the longest-lasting.
--Bigleaf maple: a softer maple, very common here and respectable burning wood.
--Giant sequoia; scrounged a half-cord last fall. Future kindling/shoulder wood.

As for bits and pieces still in the stacks, we also have:

--A few pieces of Madrone: purchased a cord three years ago. Not common in this part of OR, but great firewood. Saving some for food smoking.
--A few chunks of red alder. Many people burn it as fuel here, but it's slow to season and sluggish to burn; better for fish smoking in my book.
--Cherry, again saving a few chunks for smoking.
--Ditto plum.
--A few chunks of Ponderosa pine that will soon be consumed as kindling.
--My last few pieces of red cedar, the best local kindling. Need to get more soon...
--And finally, a few pieces of unidentified and (I think) non-native species that I've scrounged and not bothered to picture for ID here.

It's late right now, but I'll go out and survey the stacks in the morning in case any earth-shakingly important woods were left off the list.

black locust
noisy azz swamp maple (no kidding I'm pretty certain it's a real species)
black locust
white oak
black walnut
locust that is black
red oak
more black locust (first name Glutton, last name Punishment)
mulberry
cherry
gum (just in case I get bored with the locust)
sugar maple
locust that is not white
and some random pine fat wood

As much fun as the locust is to split, after a few winters of constantly humping pine near Spokane I'll never complain again.

Red Oak, White Oak, Maple, Black Cherry, Tulip (Yellow) Poplar, Black Locust

(Less often) Dogwood, Apple, Black Gum, Hickory, Mullberry, White Pine, Hemlock, Mimosa, Black Walnut

non-PT construction scraps and pallet pieces

Probably a few more I forgot...

99% of my supply the last 7-8 years has been beech with an occasional piece of hornbeam, cherry or maple that falls across the driveway into my camp.
I have prolly 2 more years of beech left then I have a mix of everything under the sun on tap that I just started seasoning. Next winter I may start filtering some of this mix into the beech to make it last longer.
Sure would like to get into some oak or hickory !

In order of quantity:

Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta)
California Black Oak (Quercus kelloggii)
Douglas Fir (Psuedotsuga menziesii)
White Fir (Abies concolor)
California Incense Cedar (Calocedrus decurrens)
Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)