Montana companies cash in on slash piles

It used to be the stuff that went up in smoke after logging companies finished a job in the woods.

Those tree tops, saplings, branches and needles loggers call slash were little more than a nuisance to be piled up and burned.

With the advent of a growing interest in alternative energy, that’s all changed.

By PERRY BACKUS of the Missoulian

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