Forest Service Awards Grants to Montana Companies for Biomass Projects
| April 19, 2007 |  View for printing |
Two Montana companies have been awarded U.S. Forest Service grants of about $250,000 each for industrial projects using woody biomass -- small-diameter trees, logging debris and other forest matter usually considered of low value.
North Slope Sustainable Wood of Missoula received the money to market wood flooring from larch and Douglas fir trees about 8 inches or less in diameter. John Jump Trucking of Kalispell got a grant to launch a system for collecting and moving woody biomass in western Montana.
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