Reduce the Smoke of Your Fire

It's taken me years to figure out that it's important to keep your fires' fuel crisscrossed or teeped. The idea is to maintain as much air flow between the fuel pieces as possible so the fire burns hot and efficiently, without smoke. 

Additionally, if a pit is used over and over, carefully remove old soot and embers before a new fire; this also increases air flow somewhat at first and spreads the ash for vegetation. I say carefully, as you would not carelessly throw a hot coal into the woods.

When using poplar, as it may be the only wood available, remove the outer bark of dead standing. Do this carefully, and if there is a spider nest, lay the piece inside carefully elsewhere. The bark usually is damp, which will make more smoke than wanted. Also, barked wood will take far longer to ignite. 

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