Buy local, burn local

Moving firewood can carry insects and disease to new areas, damaging local ecosystems.

Follow these best practices to protect our park from invasive species:

• BUY firewood locally, within the national park.
  • firewood can usually be purchased at grocery stores and gas stations within Banff National Park; do not bring your own firewood into the park.
• LEAVE any unused firewood on site to prevent transporting invasive species to new areas.
• LEARN to identify common invasive species and report them using iNaturalist.

Why?

Nature is a delicate balance. Too much of one species or not enough of the other can be extremely damaging to the local flora and fauna. This affects a national park’s ecological integrity.

Visit the Buy Local, Burn Local website for more information about this program.