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Fueling a new industry - Companies turn waste wood into energy:
When Shawn Montee finished a logging job, thousands of BTUs of energy used to go up in smoke.
His crews gathered up the logging slash and torched it. To Montee, one of North Idaho’s largest logging ...
Good Economic News - Upcoming Wood Products Conference featuring Rolling Stones keyboardist - The 4th Annual Small Log Conference, 3/25-27, Coeur D’Alene, Idaho:
Forest industry not totally stuck in gloom and doom
Industry innovators to share ideas at Small Log Conference
Ed Mayer has had enough of the gloom and doom. So have Russ Vaagen, Craig Rawlings, ...
The color of profit: Businessman, Bill Clawson and ‘tree hugger', Peter Stark join forces with green windows - "The NorthSlope Window by Clawson":
The product's history and the hope it instills for a more sustainable and energy-efficient future, he said, is the common ground where folks from all perspectives can meet in agreement.
“There's a ...
In the West, Turning Waste Wood Into Heat - Fuels for School and Beyond Program:
As the popularity of biomass energy grows throughout the forest-rich areas of the Northwest United States, Montana has cemented its position as the standard-bearer for a large six-state effort called ...
Biomass bummers:
In its first year of operation, the biomass boiler system for Kalispell’s Glacier High School has had breakdowns and mechanical failures that sent clouds of black smoke billowing from the school.
These ...
Government disbursing $4MM in grants for use of woody debris. $1MM going to Montana companies:
The federal government is disbursing some $4 million in grants to encourage innovative uses of low-value trees and woody debris removed from national forests, with nearly one-fourth of that money going ...
Letting off some steam at the Eureka Public Schools' new biomass boiler system - Fuels for Schools:
"Every day that this runs, we save $2,000," Powell pointed out.
A tall smokestack rises up between the Eureka Middle School and Elementary buildings, puffing a cloudy plume into the skies. But ...
Small trees, big vision: Missoula company thins little larch from forest to make floors. "North Slope Sustainable Wood":
Peter Stark is the co-owner of North Slope Sustainable Wood http://www.northslopewood.com/about.htm . The Missoula-based company manufactures flooring and trim from the kind of small-diameter larch trees ...
First cellulosic ethanol plant to open:
The race is on to try to open the first large-scale cellulosic ethanol plant.
Range Fuels on Monday is expected to announce that it has received a permit to build an ethanol production plant in rural ...
Forest Service Awards Grants to Montana Companies for Biomass Projects:
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 ...
Cutting edge: Small-wood workshop looks at new technologies:
A remote-controlled dozer not much bigger than a common lawn tractor designed to remove woody debris from small acreages.
Thin strips of waste wood tied up in bales that can replace the straw ...
Weyerhaeuser and Chevron said Thursday they are joining forces to research ways to commercialize biofuels made from wood and other cellulose materials.:
The companies will explore a range of technologies, including some that could turn wood into ethanol or synthetic gasoline and diesel, said a Chevron official.
By Hal Bernton
Seattle ...
Salmon,Idaho company gets grant for small-diameter wood products plant:
Forest Fuels Solutions of Salmon will receive a $250,000 woody biomass utilization grant to be used with matching local dollars to operate a small-diameter wood products plant, the U.S. Forest Service ...
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 ...
Santa Fe Exploring Possibility of Heating City Buildings with Biomass:
The system to heat downtown buildings would use slash from forest thinning or byproducts from area lumber producers and would create billions of dollars in local economic development over its life, the ...
Logging lightly: Woodland Restoration Inc. of Missoula takes easy-on-the-landscape approach to thinning:
“I'm one of the lucky ones who look forward to coming to work every morning,” he says, his hard hat in hand swinging with every step. “I think we're making a difference.”
Blakely works as a contractor ...
Sawmills branch out to biomass: Practice thins forests to make electricity:
After almost 90 years of sawing pine and Douglas fir logs into lumber, Rough & Ready Lumber Co. is branching into the energy business, building a $5 million plant to burn logging debris and to produce ...
School district 13's biomass will wait a year:
It looks like School District 13's plans for a new biomass plant to heat the schools will take longer than hoped. At the district's regular board meeting last week, the board decided not to ...
Making Ethanol from Wood Chips:
Former Superior lumber mill now home to three wood products businesses:
“The wood products industry is trying to rethink itself,” said Larry Swanson, director of the Missoula-based Center for the Rocky Mountain West http://www.crmw.org . “They're moving away from the single ...
Researchers study how thinning helps stand of old-growth trees:
For centuries, fire had been a frequent visitor to the forest floor beneath this 300-year-old larch perched on a side hill far above Missoula's Grant Creek.
Every couple of decades, fire cleared out ...
Purdue study sees trees as possible source of ethanol:
It's common to hear about turning corn into fuel, but what about trees?
Researchers at Purdue University are fiddling with poplar tree genes, attempting to produce trees that could grow fast and yield ...
Smallwood Utilization Network (SUN):
SUN offers you a broad network to deal with the complex set of challenges in supply, production, and marketing for the emerging smallwood industry. To keep you up-to-date with the industry, we have ...
Turning Slash into Cash:
A portable plant might make it economical to transform huge amounts of logging "waste" into energy -- right in the forest.
Advanced Biorefinery’s http://www.sdtc.ca/ modular pyrolysis system ...
Biomass isn't one size fits all, says report:
Schools, hospitals and power plants that successfully use logging leftovers as fuel do so because the wood is nearby, readily and reliably available, and - in some cases - its use is subsidized.
That's ...
Eureka, Montana schools secure financing for heat system:
After nearly three years of trying, the Eureka School District will get a central heating plant fired by wood biomass, a renewable source of energy.
An attempt was made to include the system ...
Wood Fuel Supplier Needed For Kalispell's Glacier High. - Pre-Bid Meeting, 8/3, Kalispell :
2006-08-03 14:00:00
First Interstate Bank Building, 2 Main Street in Kalispell.
Contact: Angela Farr AFarr@mt.gov
A 3-year contract to provide biomass fuel to heat
Glacier High School ...
Heating Bozeman High with wood chips could save money in long run. Fuels for Schools:
Burning waste wood left over from logging to heat Bozeman High School could save money in the long run, according to a new report.
"It does look feasible," says Gary Griffith, who's in charge ...
Montana Forest Fuel Collection Business, All Woody Resources, Wins USDA/RD Grant:
It's easy to find uses for small-diameter trees and woody biomass. It's not so easy to find a cost-effective way of getting that material from the forest to the people who can use it. But Craig Thomas ...
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