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Missoula team’s wood waste project wins $25,000 award in the second Barrett Foundation Business Concept Challenge.

February 17, 2015/

About one quarter of all the wood cut on a logging project gets left in the woods. Stephen Jenkins thinks he has a way to make money off those leftovers.

The idea that he and Jena Trejo came up with was good enough to win $25,000 as runner-up in the second Barrett Foundation Business Concept Challenge http://www.nationalforests.org/conserve/grantprograms/barrett-prize . And the waste product of their innovation was the contest’s $75,000 first-place project.

By Rob Chaney

Full Story: http://ravallirepublic.com/business/local/article_e51abd21-f477-59f5-a4d1-f1e884be031f.html

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