Wood usage, what are wet and dry environments?

[Simland]

Hi,

There's an excellent article on Caudata Culture about what type of wood is safe for caudate terraria. (It's even used as a reference on the frog forum that I'm a member of.)

I have what I think are sugar maple branches, and the article says they are safe only for dry environments.

So I was wondering what exactly are wet and dry environments. Is it as simple as wet = aquarium (where the wood would be submerged) and dry = terrestrial, where the air and the soil may be moist (part of the wood may be in the moist substrate) but no part of the wood is submerged in a body of water.

Or is it more complicated than that?

Any help would be much appreciated

 

[taherman]

I would consider it safe for any terrestrial environment. Many millions of salamanders inhabit forests full of rotting sugar maple logs.

 

[Simland]

Thanks for the confirmation!