Biomass-to-Oil Process From Honeywell Technologies Selected by Italian Company for Renewable Power Honeywell announced that an Italian power
company has selected the Envergent rapid thermal
processing technology for the development of a facility to convert biomass
into pyrolysis oil for renewable power generation.
Forest Service has 37,500-acre thinning plan The U.S. Forest Service is putting the finishing touches on a massive, 37,500-acre thinning plan all the way from Tonto Creek to Star Valley
Disney commits $4 million to rainforest conservation in the Amazon, Congo
The Walt Disney Company will invest $7 million in forest conservation projects in the U.S., the Congo Basin, and the Amazon in an effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Pine beetle infestation spreading The flight of the pine beetle from British Columbia over the season was one of the most severe Alberta has seen, even compared to the 2006 inflight, Sustainable Resources Development Minister Ted Morton revealed in the legislature Wednesday.
Montanas Pine Beetle Infestation Video Red and Dead - Montana's Pine Beetle Infestation
CO - Foresters assess beetle project on Aspen's Smuggler Mountain pine beetles have continued to attack lodgepole pines on Aspen's Smuggler Mountain, but that doesn't mean an experiment to slow the spread of the destructive insects can't be deemed a success
Beetle-ravaged trees change wildfire behavior in western Montana "We're seeing fire behavior that surprised us," said Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Supervisor Dave Meyers. "We're having more severe burning fires, they're larger, they start sooner, and they go longer".
The mountain pine beetle epidemic is over according to BC's forests minister But its not because the beetles have been defeated. Rather, they have run out of trees
Letting in the light: Redwood Park forest thinning project in full swing The project spans 1,700 acres and aims to give these tightly packed forests -- logged in the 1950s and 1960s and heavily seeded -- some breathing room
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Economic Recovery Projects For Forest Health Protection 78 projects in 20 States and the District of Columbia will receive a total of $89 million to address problems caused by fire, insects, invasive species and disease
MT - Beetles Shaping Debate On Logging Helenas city commission met last week to earnestly discuss something that three years ago would have been a sacrilege: Logging Mount Helena city park
Pine Beetle Writes Future For Much Of Colorado's Forest The mountain pine beetle has eaten its way through 95 percent of Colorados lodgepole pines, about 2 million acres of forest
MT - Flathead Forest Proposes Beetle Salvage Logging The Flathead National Forest is proposing a project to salvage beetle-killed trees on approximately 1,300 acres about 10 miles south of Condon
MN - Dovetail Partners Provides Information about Emerald Ash Borer Information available from Dovetail Partners, a Minneapolis-based non-profit organization, addresses common questions about the threat posed by the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB).
Bark Beetles They're Back!! Are Your Trees at Risk USFS Bark Beetle Brochure 2009
Some See Beetle Attacks On Western Forests As a Natural Event When Ken Salazar then a senator from Colorado, now secretary of the interior called the attack on millions of acres of pine forests by the bark beetle the Katrina of the West
SD - Forest Service In Race Against Beetles The U.S. Forest Service says its holding its own in the war on the mountain pine beetle epidemic in the Black Hills, although some county officials say the feds are not doing enough
CO - Smuggler Trees Take Flight Before The Pine Beetles Do Helicopter plucks infested trees in effort to slow destructive insects
SD - Thune Vows To Fight Pine Beetle Infestation It's a race. So says Sen. John Thune, U.S. Forest Service officials and some residents about the pine beetle infestation that has spread across private, state and federal property in the Black Hills
BC - Major Pine Beetle Research Project Announced
MT - A House In The Woods, After The Woods Are Gone FALLING PINES In the dense forests of Montana, the pine trees surrounding the writers house have been turning red and dying because of an infestation of beetles
Forest Service Designates New Experimental Forest in Tongass National Forest The 25,000-acre Hen Latinee Experimental Forest is located inside the Tongass National Forest, and is easily accessible by road from Juneau, Alaska. It is part of the largest temperate rain forest in the world
MT - Forest to use stimulus fund Up to $5 million in federal stimulus money is available to local forest workers for forest restoration and fuels reduction work around Montana
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CO - Too Much Beetle Wood Aint Enough Wood from beetle-killed trees can be used as fuel, yet biomass heating systems require more wood than even Colorados 1.5 million acres of infected lodgepole pines could provide for long-term use