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Businesses rewarded for creative wood use

With poster-size checks and etched plaques, Undersecretary of Agriculture Mark Rey encouraged locals to find more ways to make money from small-diameter wood and celebrated some successes in small-wood utilization at a meeting in Missoula on Friday morning.

Finding marketable uses for beetle-killed trees and glorified underbrush is a little like the futile efforts of medieval alchemists to make gold from base metals, Rey said.

The only difference is the modern efforts work.
"You’ve created a natural resource out of something that was useless or had no value," Rey said.

Then he presented big grant checks to three businesses in the region. The federal money will help them to expand and improve operations.

By ROBERT STRUCKMAN of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2005/07/09/news/local/news05.txt

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