A handful of freshly dropped, sap sticky pine cones and a little birch bark and I'm good to go. I seldom burn anything too large to break by hand or with a good stomp. I'm not too picky about the type of wood, although I like to use the dead hardwood saplings for cooking if I can find them. Even for an evening fire, I'm usually ready to hit the sack pretty early, so I don't want to wait for giant log to burn down.