Record drought could yield firewood glut

HOUSTON – At Embark Tree and Landscape Services, they’re embarking on a new side business because of the Texas drought.

“This is the opportunity we have when we’re taking a lot of hardwood trees down, and we’re going ahead and seizing the opportunity and expanding that service to our customers,” said Matt Hancock, the company’s vice president.

With his landscaping business off because of the drought, necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention, and the firewood business is booming.

“We’re talking about millions of trees, a tree on nearly every residential property you see, and certainly commercial properties, and on any unmaintained property, there are 100 percent complete stands that have died around Houston,” Hancock said.

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