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Fueling a New Biomass Industry – Study exploring the creation of a new biofuel industry for waste wood

It’s a common sight throughout logged forests everywhere — leftover piles of wood debris littered across the landscape. For more than a century this throwaway slash has been an inconvenient and expensive byproduct of harvesting timber as well as a contributor to wildfires. But recent innovations in science are changing the way excess wood debris is valued.

"This is basically a gold pile that nobody is utilizing right now," said Peter F. Kolb, an associate professor of forest ecology and management at Montana State University.

Nowhere else in the West is there a larger pile of "gold" than Northwest Montana.

By Dillon Tabish

Full Story: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/fueling_a_new_biomass_industry/29824/

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