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Montana conference examines wood waste as fuel – "Fuels for Schools and Beyond"

March 1, 2006 /

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Montana forests have so much woody debris that if it was made into chips and spread on a football field, the pile would be two miles high, an engineering consultant said Wednesday at a wildfire conference examining use of waste wood as fuel.

"The idea is to use this material (beneficially) rather than burning it up as waste," Denise DeLuca said.

Use of biomass – woody material – led the agenda for the final day of the Montana Communities and Wildfire Conference, organized in part by the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation.

Fuels for Schools and Beyond http://www.fuelsforschools.org/

By SUSAN GALLAGHER of the Associated Press

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