Reply #1: Wood stove user here!

[NEOhiodemocrat]

We have heated with wood for almost 30 years. Exclusively for the last 18 (when our oil furnace blew the liner). We lived in town for 10 of those years and my husband cut yard trees for people for the firewood. Now we are out in the boonies and cut trees for others also, but generally not yard trees. Clean fence lines for farmers and cut some out of our woods. I have never felt that is it bad for the environment. Have wondered like you do about the issue however. I felt we were doing a service taking down the yard trees in town and love wood heat. I think of it as a renewable energy source, much better than oil for sure.