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2008 FPL Woody Biomass Grant
The woody biomass utilization grant program is intended to help improve forest restoration and lower Cost of Fuel Reduction on National Forest System Land

MT - Forest Parties Reach Consensus on Restoration Principles
Common ground created around the idea of on-the-ground restoration

NB Canada - Mill's closure expected to trample forestry industry
The closure of a Fredericton sawmill is expected to have a far-reaching impact on the province's forestry industry.

MI - Shuttered Georgia-Pacific plant could could come back to life
Proposed redevelopment plans involving three companies would bring cellulosic ethanol, advanced sawmill and wood pellet operations to the G-P site creating 165 new manufacturing jobs.

Endowment Calls for Input on Focal Initiatives
The online survey will remain active until the Endowment's special "Focal Initiatives Workshop" to be held in Greenville, SC, November 1-3, 2007.

MT: As Logging Fades, Rich Carve Up Open Land in West
Mr. Foley belongs to a new wave of investors and landowners across the West who are snapping up open spaces as private playgrounds on the borders of national parks and national forests.

Chinese loggers stripping Myanmar's ancient forests
Each year caravans of Chinese trucks haul tens of thousands of tonnes of Myanmar's tropical trees to China, the world's largest importer of rare timber and a wood manufacturing centre.

US: Ensuring Forest Sustainability in the Development of Wood-Based Bioenergy
Two major national priorities mitigating climate change, and achieving greater energy security though increased domestic renewable energy productionhave converged to create new and rapidly expanding demands on US forests for wood-based bioenergy.

Nova Scotia government ponies up $36 million for struggling forestry industry
The Nova Scotia government is making up to $36 million in taxpayer's money available to pulp and paper mills and sawmills in the province over the next five years.

PA: Bentons Biomass Boiler Project Fuels Interest
The motivation behind Benton Area School Districts plan to install a biomass boiler system to heat two schools is simple: utilize a renewable resource for fuel while energizing the local economy.

$6M wood pellet plant coming to Hayward Wisconsin
The plant is going to make residential and industrial-grade wood fuel pellets. They are going to take green cord wood and then de-bark it and chip that wood and dry those chips down to a sawdust material and then make pellets

Biomass gasification plant set for Massachusetts
Massachusetts plant will use biomass as well as coal and petroleum coke as feedstocks to make natural gas.

North Dakota Landfill would chuck wood if it could
The City of Minot spent $15,000 to rent a Vermeer wood chipper from Oregon for 40 hours

MT: Rattlesnake / Sawmill Gulch to see thinning
National forest land in Missoula's Rattlesnake Valley will be thinned under an unusual partnership between the U.S. Forest Service, environmentalists and timber companies

MT: Sawmill Gulch partners thank Tricon as project moves forward
Tricon Timber should be commended for stepping up and helping bring an important project to completion, according to the Sierra Club, the Society of American Foresters, the U.S. Forest Service, and landowners in Missoula's upper Rattlesnake.

MT: Swan Valley / Battle to weaken future forest fires is a group effort
Throughout the forest here - from the sunny fringe to the dark interior, where homes and wildfires meet - America's new approach to managing fire and land development is playing out.

Easton PA: Logging the city's trees, digitally
Groups aim to create database of arbors in the West Ward, plant 500 more.

East Texas Timber land sale worth $2.38 billion
Temple-Inland Inc. Wednesday closed its sale of timber lands in East Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama with Portland, Ore.-based Campbell Group LLC.

Montana sawmill faces future with optimism
Daily challenges for Sherman Anderson and his staff at Sun Mountain Lumber in Deer Lodge include a depressed housing market, the lowest prices in 10 years for some products, a limited timber supply and increased production costs.

Potlatch takes REIT to heart
Future focus of Spokane Washington based company wont be on manufacturing

Wellpinit Washington: Tribe in Collaboration to Help Protect Wildlife Habitat
The Spokane Tribe of Indians is pleased to announce the recent purchase of wildlife habitat land from Forest Capital Partners

California Smoke Alarm
Wildfires release surprising amounts of mercury

US Endowment For Forestry & Communities Adopts Strategic Focus
Endowments Board of Directors adopts a programmatic focus for its work.

Maine loggers feel pinch of fuel costs
The high price of diesel fuel is taking a toll on truckers who haul logs from the woods to the mills across Maine.

OR: Field trip helps forge trust among diverse interests
Armed with 11 different colors and patterns of marking tape, they set out with a goal to flag which trees they would save, with the other ones left to be cut, if they were making the decisions.

Irish Company Interest in Duluth MN for Possible Wood Pellet Plant
The plant would produce wood pellets that would be shipped to European countries as an alternative fuel source for power plants.

Why Chinese Power Plants Need Rabbit Food
You can mix wood pellets with coal and reduce the CO2 emissions from your power plant by 50%. The Chinese government wants to start buying wood pellets to burn in its coal plants.

North American Softwood Sawmills in Decline
The number of larger, permanent softwood lumber mills in the United States and Canada has shrunk from 1,311 in 1995 to 990 as of June 2007, according to economists at the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory.

MT: State of timber: Tracing history of an industry in decline
Over the past three decades, the national forest timber harvest has crashed. Some blame environmental regulation. Others blame overharvest in the 1970s and 1980s. Still others point to supply-and-demand economics

Germany - High Tech System Now Available For The North American Timber Industry
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a revolutionary new management information tool combining passive RFID chip tags, database software, and technology for forest operations

MT: State of timber / DNRC's harvesting production on rise
Since it went into the public-land logging business in 1889, the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation has seen its share of ups and downs in timber production.

New Woody Biomass Heating System Could Save Bismarck Almost $1 Million
Man has known for ages that biomass can be used to produce energy, and now the city of Bismarck is putting those principles into practice. The work has city leaders and North Dakota`s Congressional delegation excited.

Firefighting on the new frontier
Steve Pyne calls it "The Great Barbecue," a time when it seemed as if the United States itself was on fire. This year marks the third in a row that more than 8 million acres of land has been burned by wildfires

Oberstar announces assistance for loggers
Today, Congressman Jim Oberstars office announced that the Forest Service will be adding an additional year to the time loggers have to pay off contracts to harvest timber on public lands.

MT: State of timber Culture, fire play roles in CSKT forest plan
In 2000, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes adopted a new forest management plan that immediately cut the annual timber harvest on tribal lands on the Flathead Reservation almost in half, from 32 million board feet a year to 18.1 million.
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Belated congratulations: Wei Min Hao, of USFS Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana
When the Nobel Peace Prize was announced last month, University of Montana professor Steve Running got a lot of attention for being among the many researchers who shared the award with Al Gore for their work on global warming.

MT: State of timber: Forests' future full of changes, challenges
Today, the Missoulian concludes a four-part look at the past, present and future of timber cutting in Montana.

ME: Plum Creek plan provides hope for Moosehead region
Orderly growth, land conservation provide impetus for revitalization

New website: Coordinated Resource Offering Protocol (CROP) database and mapping systems
CROP has been designed to help businesses and investors perform strategic supply analyses to determine the feasibility of investing in small-diameter logs and woody biomass material processing infrastructure

Fresh from the Woods: Fuel from the forest
"The time will come, in two or three decades, when we will look at the days of only sawing boards and making paper as the Dark Ages," says Robert G. Wagner, professor of forestry at the University of Maine

Pressed logs in short supply at stores around the Coos Bay, Oregon Area
As temperatures drop, many people turn to pressed logs to heat their homes, but that may not be the case for a while, as stores like Coos Grange Supply simply don't have any in stock.

Recycle your Christmas Tree
Considering that nearly 29 million households opted for a real Christmas tree in 2006, that's a lot of wood chips!

School takes energy lead by installing woody biomass heating system
Steam Boat Spring's South Routt School District could be the last in Colorado to heat its schools with coal.

Budget predicament
U.S. Forest Service officials say the cost of fighting this summer's wildfires is forcing them to divert funds from non-firefighting programs.

Quebec, Canada - Forestry sector is left out of booming resource party
It's perhaps odd that with commodity prices booming until recently, forest products haven't joined the party.

USFS launches Climate Resource Center website
Land managers understand that the climate is changing and now want to know how best to respond

MT - America's First Integrated Cellulosic and Starch Ethanol Refinery to Open Next Week
The Butte, Montana, refinery is expected to produce up to 150,000 gallons of cellulosic ethanol annually from local wheat straw, corn stover and other agricultural waste materials

The new guys in the wood chip business
BP Invests $90 Million in Vereniums Cellulosic Ethanol Technology, to turn the cellulosic material (switchgrass, wood chips, sugarcane bagasse, miscanthus) into ethanol

Timber trouble: Investors, homeowners struggle to remove trees felled by tornado
New Hampshire forestry officials say it could take some time before they are able to assess the economic damage last month's tornado had on 8,400 acres of timberland

Florida's top logger still wild about going into woods
Jerry Padgett has kept his operation going for 48 years

Norwegian Wood: Putting Wood Chips In The Fuel Tank
The answer is a second generation of fuels biodiesel and bioethanol.

The Colorado State Forest Service and Western Forestry Leadership Coalition are seeking RFP's
A report is sought to improve understanding and ability to communicate the changes affecting the forest products industry and the implications for forestland conversion and sustainability to forest policy decision makers.

Paper industry faces rough road ahead
Overcapacity has kept a lid on paper prices for years, while increasing costs of wood and energy have eaten into paper makers' already low margins

Money Matters: Pellet stoves are burning up the market these days
"I believe it all happened when the price of oil went up, when it broke $4 (a gallon)," said David Meier, owner of the Adams Stove Co. in Adams. "I believe that's when everybody started coming in.

Humboldt County tree sitters, timber firm call a truce
New owner's promise of sustainable logging brings activists down from redwood perches.

Little trees pose big danger in forests
A century of fire suppression allowed combustible thickets to cover millions of acres. A Forest Service project in Arizona takes a new approach.

Moving forest businesses to long term environmental and economic sustainability
Trouble in the the timber industry By Craig Rawlings and Rosalie Sheehy Cates

British Columbia: Nanaimo's Biggest Employer Gets New Lease on Life
Employee company takes over at Harmac Pulp & Paper Mill, Workers, managers and other partners meet Supreme Court deadline

China's former richest man sent to jail for illegal logging
A Chinese businessman once listed as the richest in the country has been jailed for more than 10 years for illegal logging

Alberta, Canada: Fire claims sawmill in Fox Creek
the fire started in the Millar Western sawmill near Fox Creek, Alta. The sawmill had to be evacuated, but no one was hurt.

Manitoba Hydro Offers Clients Incentives To Switch To Biomass Fueled Energy And Gas
The Canadian energy and gas giant Manitoba Hydro is going to target 250 of its industrial and agricultural customers to get them to create their own biomass energy operations

Toolsie Persaud Limited has paid off its $80M fine to the Guyana Forestry Commission
The breaches, for which the company has to pay compensation, were discovered during a routine post-harvest audit of TPLs operations in 2007.

Swift Enterprises Joins Race for Alternative Jet Fuel
The company, which is based in Indiana, has developed a renewable jet fuel made from landfill waste,algae, woodchips, and other feedstocks.

Loggers in northern Minn. cutting their losses, but there are a few bright spots
Loggers' paychecks have fallen steadily for the past two years while their expenses - everything from the price of fuel to new equipment - have escalated.

The "Recovery & Value Adding Approach" For Revitalizing The Wood Products Industry
Connecting the dots between where the industry is today and where it could be headed in the near future is a simple exercise

CA: Wood flooring that's environmentally friendly
The housing market is a mess, but not for Richmond Calif EcoTimber, a national leader in environmentally friendly wood flooring

AZ: Partners celebrate opening of biomass plant
At 24 Megawatts its the largest woody biomass plant in Arizona

Industry changes in New Jersey force sawmills to pack their trunks
The effects of globalization, development and technological, economic and legislative change have all contributed to the decline of mills here

"Wildfire" of bugs plagues forests
Mountain pine beetle barrage continues to eat away at Black Hills National Forest

Montana Forester/Logger short story on "state of the industry"
Living for months, several hundred miles, from home looking out the window of a Timbco gives a guy some time to think

Ghana to process underwater timber
Clark Sustainable Resources Development Limited (CSRD), has already expended more than 10 million dollars of an expected 100 million dollars in preparation for commercial production

OR: New sawmill to open soon
Upper Columbia Sawmill expects to hire 50 workers

AZ: Building with Roundwood Workshop
You will learn to build a 32 x 64 ramada out of roundwood

NY: Lincoln Logs bankruptcy latest blow in housing
A national log home kit manufacturer headquartered near Lake George has become the latest victim of the housing slump.

Fancy contraption thins the forest
'Dangle head processor' has environmental upside too, operator says

Sour economy hits paper mills, small-town workers
A major culprit is foreign competition. Jeff Landin, the president of the Wisconsin Paper Council, said imports have jumped in the last five to seven years

Mitsubishi hunts for biomass projects around the world
Japanese group Mitsubishi is looking globally for biomass investment targets as part of a push into the renewables market.

Canada: Expect more cuts amid U.S. turmoil: forestry CEO
Western Forest Products to continue reduced sawmill operations, boss says

FEMA Money Used To Reduce Wildfire Risk In Portland, Oregon
Two years ago, Portland parks received a grant of nearly a million dollars from FEMA to reduce the risk of wildfire in natural areas around the city.

OR: Ethanol lab opens at Mount Hood Community College
Wood chips and not corn used to make ethanol

NYSERDA focuses on biomass heating projects
The projects, valued at more than $2.5 million, will compare energy and emissions performance for wood-burning equipment

WA: Pomeroy School District seeks ESCO RFQ's
The goal is to retrofit a diesel fueled heating system with a woody biomass fueled boiler that will heat their 127,000 sq/ft school

Ag Secretary makes a special visit to the Tongass National Forest
Ed Schafer tours Craig Alaska's woody biomass heating system

MT: Log houses lagging: Some custom home businesses getting by while others hit hard
The log home business has historically been good to many in the Bitterroot Valley's once thriving industry.

Mexican marijuana cartels sully US forests, parks
Seven hundred grow sites were discovered on U.S. Forest Service land in California alone in 2007 and 2008

CA: Private landowners seek removal of burned trees
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's regional office in Redding has recived 240 requests so far

Another Specialist Forestry Attachment Joins the Liebherr-Rental Armoury
The Tree Shear is predominantly used in forest thinning applications, where saplings and small trees can be felled and removed in one operation

SD: Cellulosic Ethanol Company Goes Public
Company to Focus on Expansion of Its Current Operation of the US' First Commercial Waste Wood to Ethanol Facility

Pittman hired for Idaho forestry job
Maggie Pittman has been selected as the deputy forest supervisor for the Idaho Panhandle National Forests

The British Columbia Energy Plan
The BC Energy Plan sets out a strategy for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and commits to unprecedented investments in alternative technology

U.S. Government Rolls Out Implementation for World's First Ban on Trade in Illegally Logged Wood
Congress, Retailers, Wood Industry and Environmental Groups Reach Agreement on Next Steps

Tax Tips for Forest Landowners for the 2008 Tax Year
This bulletin summarizes key federal income tax provisions for forestland owners, foresters, loggers, forest product businesses, and tax practitioners

University of Oregon program encourages use of wood for heating
New guide to wood energy shows how to save money, replace fossil fuels

National Museum of Forest Service History to be built in Missoula MT
Museum organizers are asking the forest products industry to become a partner in this work

Small Log Conference Brings Local/Global Perspective
International event slated for March Mar. 25-27, 2009 in Coeur dAlene, Idaho

How green are your pallets?
Which is more environmentally sustainable: the lightweight plastic pallet one or the biodegradable wood one? It's more complicated than it might sound.

NY: Timber Theft On The Rise
State Foresters Association Warns Land Owners Of Problem

CO: Help a forest and collect free wood for winter burning
Anyone with a 4-wheel drive vehicle can collect the firewood for free. The DNResources is responsible for downing the trees and cutting up the wood into firewood size, then stacking in accessible piles along or near service roads

MT: Nonprofit bank awarded $40 million for low-income projects
New Market Tax Credit program could be used to finance timberland acquisitions

Raven Biofuels Signs MOU With Kamloops Indian Band for Feedstock and Biorefinery Development
Estimated capital expenditure for the initial plant (not including the cogeneration power facility) is anticipated to be $33 million

Winn Ranger District uses wood for electricity
This unit does not use agricultural products but instead converts wood into electricity.

NV: University researchers turn woody biomass into energy
The development of technologies for cleaning syngas at high temperatures is an important current focus for research and development

4,000 tons of chipped woody biomass for sale
Located in 30 miles south of Evanston WY

How long will Northwests mills keep going?
Any company that is unable to get short-term financing is going to end up out of business,

Whistler BC: Let the composting begin
Rawlings Manufacturing wood hog grinds wood waste for the composter

$8.6 MILLION IN NEW FUNDS FOR TROPICAL FORESTS
New thematic programs attract additional funding;11 new projects launched; Action Plan agreed on

The Nature Conservancy Joins Northwest Certified Forestry
This summer TNC made the decision to join Northwest Certified Forestry, enrolling two managed forests in Washington

$30 million boost will speed forest projects in Summit County
State and federal agencies target thinning, restoration in Colorado forests

Idaho Legislators get handle on northern part of state
As Max Smolinski toured Bennett Lumber Products in Princeton, he commented on the links between the sawmill industry and his own business, a wholesale bolt and chain distributorship.

Oil prices drop but stoves still hot
While the price of heating oil in Massachusetts may be plummeting, sales of alternative fuels, such as cordwood, wood pellets, and wood and gas stoves have remained brisk

New bundling machine gathers logging debris
The John Deere machine is made in Europe and is only the third one sold in the United States

Large-scale wood pellet manufacturing facility officially opened in Knocktopher, Ireland
D Pellet is using forestry thinnings sourced mainly from local private growers

Idaho company wins UF Forest Service logging contract
Boise Building Solutions will use a helicopter to remove trees on 300 acres and ground-based logging equipment on the other 60 acres

VT: Green Mountain College to build green power plant
Connected to wood boilers, the generator is expected to produce 400,000 kilowatts of electricity each year

Colorado energy lab eyes growth
'Campus of the Future' in Golden would have 2,500 employees and more than 12 new research buildings to study solar, wind power and biofuels - if it's funded

Endowment Announces Selection of Forest Investment Zones
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities announces the selection of three areas as Forest Investment Zones under a multi-million dollar initiative

OR - Building a new wood products industry
A $2 million grant is breathing life into planning for a new sustainable wood products industry in Baker County capable of providing income for woodland owners and low-cost power, heat, wood pellets and firewood to the community.

CO - NREL Igintes $3.3 Million Woodchip Boiler
The RFHP will heat NRELs South Table Mountain Campus laboratory buildings by burning woody biomass, including wood chips from trees lost to the regions mountain pine beetle epidemic

OR - Klamath Tribes acquire the Crater Lake Mill site
Enterprises being evaluated for the site include a bundled fire wood business, the manufacturing of wood chips, small diameter poles and posts, juniper products and green houses.

Bangor ME - Pellet fuel supplies still solid
As winter fast approaches, Maine pellet fuel manufacturers are still trying to reassure homeowners that supply is not an issue.

OR - Sawmill spins up toward goal of 100M board feet

Jointed trailer moves wood chips efficiently
A common logging trailer and an ordinary cargo container just might have a future together

Kl energy dramatically increases yield rate and reduces overall cost of cellulosic
KL has been able to increase its overall glucose recovery rate by 56% per dry ton of wood

BC - Pinnacle Pellet eyes Nazko for next expansion
A three-way partnership is being explored between Nazko, Pinnacle Pellet Inc. and Pioneer Family Timber.

ID - Waiting for daylight:
Region's lumber mills try to ride out tough times with minimum of damage

CA - Loggers offer a lesson for tough times
A forester served up the slogan for 2009: "I am optimistic I will be an optimist again."

Forest industry not totally stuck in gloom and doom
Industry innovators to share ideas at Small Log Conference March 25-27, 2009

WI - Company to turn wood waste into fuel
A Menomonie company plans to begin manufacturing a biomass product this fall that uses scrap wood to create fuel to replace coal

North Bay hopes to be a centre of the biomass boom
The city of North Bay, Ontario will be holding the 2009 Emerging Opportunities with Wood Pellets forum on March 5th

CT - Middlebury College fires up $12 million biomass plant
For a college bent on achieving carbon neutrality by 2016, the new boiler, fueled by wood chips, marks a significant step forward.

NZ - Tough year ahead for woodchip export industry
Southern woodchip exporters are preparing for a tough year as demand from Japan plummets, with one predicting a 60 per cent drop in business

MT - Door to ethanol plant appears open for Libby
With the vision of Kootenai River Development Councils Executive Director Paul Rumelhart, Libby could become one of the first commercial cellulosic ethanol plants operational in the nation

John Deere Introduces New 3754D Swing Machine
Protection from the harsh forest environment is essential to the uptime of forestry equipment. A heavy-duty three-piece engine hood protects the 3754D engine, promotes debris shedding, and provides easy access to components for daily maintenance

MN - Area timber waste being used for biomass
Rather than burning the waste from logged land, theres a new alternative coming to Becker County.

CO - Mill closure to hurt logging, beetle mitigation
The economy is tanking, and the bugs are peaking. Its a toxic recipe for forestry, and one of the most important regional sawmills is the latest victim of the poison.

Increase in Demand for Wood Pellets Pushed Prices Upward in Europe in the
Europe is currently both the largest producer and consumer of wood pellets in the world. Consumption in 2008 was estimated to be over eight million tons

US Endowment Releases Report on Community-Based Forestry
Community-based forestry (CBF) is focused on the management of forested landscapes for community and societal benefit and is carried out in diverse ways

S. Korea to produce wood pellet fuel in Indonesia
The memorandum of understanding between the Korea Forest Service and Indonesia's Forest Ministry calls for 200,000 hectares of forest land to be set aside to produce wood for pellets starting in late 2010

Colorado wages battle with beetles
The indigenous beetle dines on mature lodgepole pines, burrowing into their trunks and laying eggs

Shutdown of Plum Creek Fortine Sawmill Begins
Plum Creek Timber Co. has begun shutting down the last major sawmill in the Tobacco Valley

WA - Local logger picks a bad time to go on TV
A Cle Elum logger is in trouble with the state's timber police, after he was seen removing logs from the bottom of the Hoquiam River on a popular History Channel show

New York company exports woodchips to Sweden
Green Energy Resources Inc has signed a two-year $50 million contract with an unnamed entity in Sweden to supply fuel woodchips

Making Wood A Clean, Efficient Energy Source With New Process
Is wood the new coal? Researchers at North Carolina State University think so

Roundwood suits buyers in niche markets
Between the saw logs and the slash pile, members of the Intermountain Roundwood Association are trying to make a living

NY - Ongoing supply of wood chips for sale
Year around large quantity supply of woody biomass ready for pick-up

Thinking small, Efficient ideas to be on display at Log Conference
An industry facing its toughest times ever will look at the prospects for its future survival again this year.

MT - Senator Jon Tester seeks to jumpstart biofuel production in national forests
Tester is backing bipartisan legislation that will strengthen renewable energy opportunities in Montana by allowing biomass material from National Forests to be counted toward the Renewable Fuel Standard.

WI - Great Lakes Renewable Energy Pellet Plant Built on Knowledge and Faith
GLRE General Manager Herb Seeger commented, The secret to our success is knowing the characteristics of the wood.

Pelletsales.com: Fueling the Future
PelletSales.com provides residential delivery in 16 states, from Baltimore to Maine, inland through Pennsylvania and New York, to parts of Kentucky and Ohio, and on the West Coast through California, Oregon, and Washington

Loggers Try to Adapt to Greener Economy
Booming timber towns with three-shift lumber mills are a distant memory in the densely forested Northwest

MT - Deer Lodge schools gets biomass boiler
"You're saving the school money compared to burning fossil fuels, it's carbon-neutral so it's a really good source of renewable energy that is environmentally-friendly" says MT State Forester Bob Harrington

Small Log Conference Huge Success
Conference Gleanings: Where do we go from here? Carlton N. Owen, President & CEO, US Endowment for Forestry and Communities, Summarizes Event Proceedings

Businesses, government try to turn slash into cash
One of the few things the private and public sectors and environmental organizations agree on is that partnerships between government and business can not only provide jobs, but improve the health of forests.

Buying a new wood pellet stove made easier with tax credit
The 2009 Economic Stimulus legislation includes a 30% (up to $1,500) consumer tax credit in 2009 and 2010 for the purchase of a 75% efficient biomass-burning stove

Montana Forester writes of his adventures
Long Forestry Career, Life-Threatening Accident and Its Aftermath Inspire New Book Regurgitations of a Montana Woodsman by Stevensville Author Craig Thomas

PA: Biomass systems cut heating costs at Kane school

ID: Conference hammers on possibilities
Dying forests offer different windows of opportunity in small-log market

Google Map Assisting Wildlife And Renewable Energy
Renewable energy sources dont have to conflict with preserving wildlife and wildlands in the Western U.S.

Idaho gets $71 million to create 1,200 jobs by the U.S. Forest Service
A $6 million hazardous fuel cutting project on the Boise and Payette national forests is among $751 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act announced Friday by the U.S. Forest Service

Japan to Seek U.S., Canadian Timber After Russian Supply Drops
Japans lumber industry, which imports 80 percent of its supplies, may buy more timber from the U.S., Canada and New Zealand

Vietnam: Forests disappear at rapid rate
Deforestation intensified during the last year, with 440 hectares lost an increase of 55 percent from the previous year

Lockheed Martin unveils new biomass facility in Owego, NY
Lockheed Martin's first biomass facility companywide is located at its systems integration plant in Owego and uses tons of wood from nearby Wagner Lumber.

Sources Sought For 10 Year - 30,000 Acre/Year Forest Restoration Project
Contractor's interested in this project are requested to submit a company capability statement by June 24, 2009

Businesses make energy, money from biomass
Oregon gives tax credits to offset equipment purchase

SD: KL Energy Corporation Announces Expansion Into Brazil
Second Generation Cellulosic Ethanol Leader Teams Up With add blue Ltda. to Expand Into Brazil, the World's 2nd Largest Ethanol Market

Logging pact for northern Arizona reached
Two environmental groups and a logging company have reached a historic pact that could lead to the harvesting of nearly a million acres of small trees in northern Arizona

Plum Creek to Permanently Close Pablo, MT Sawmill
The company issued notices Monday to 87 employees at the Pablo facility, as well as to 69 workers at its Evergreen sawmill and 130 employees at its Columbia Falls sawmill

OR: Wood pellet potential encourages Roseburg Forest Products
Almost three months of operating a newly acquired wood pellet-making machine has given Roseburg Forest Products officials encouragement to continue in the endeavor.

Timber industry changing, opportunities abound, says RFP CEO
The forestry industry, and the world, are changing dramatically, says Allyn Ford, president and chief executive officer of Roseburg Forest Products.

GA - Bond in works to lure wood pellet site
Columbia County economic officials might pursue issuing a $15 million bond to bring a wood pellet manufacturer to the area

NH - Pellet plant to open
Lakes Region Pellets is a startup producer and supplier of wood pellets for private households and commercial businesses

PA - Wayne County mill finds comfortable niche in building log homes
Since the company made its first log home in 1989, business has grown every year.

CA - Sawmill layoffs topple a way of life
Monday's official closure of the small-log mill in Quincy, 146 miles northeast of Sacramento, is part of a wave of mill closures

Cruel story of Libby Montana's lost logging heritage
Dark clouds appeared in the 1970s, when timber corporations began wholesale liquidation of forests for quick monetizing of timber and replanting them with faster-growing trees

MT - Blackfoot-Clearwater plan hears support
A panel of sawmill workers, wilderness advocates, outfitters and land owners agreed it was better to work for goals they all agreed on than to continue old grudges

BC Hydro launches second phase of Bioenergy Call for Power
The Bioenergy Call is part of an effort to transform the future of forestry in B.C. while moving us another step forward on the road to achieving electricity self-sufficiency by 2016

MT - Fight over biomass - Law making it difficult for businesses to expand
After generations of disrespect, wood refuse is the material of the moment

UK - Bakewell Ovens uses biomass technology to bake bread
Bakewell Ovens is the first in the UK to produce an integrated wood pellet fuelled bakery oven

AU - Plantation Energy secures $60m deal
The agreement comes weeks after the Perth company stitched up a $70 million, three-year supply deal with a Belgian-based power company Electrabel NV

Big Oil teams up with Big Timber for next biofuel breakthrough
One of the world's largest forest companies has teamed up with one of the world's largest oil companies, in a bid to crack bioenergy's holy grail: Converting trees and plants to hydrocarbons

Forest sector losses continue to climb
Losses at Canadian forest products companies continued to accelerate during the first quarter of 2009

Wood fiber costs are rising for wood pellets manufacturers in Europe
This is do to the industry expanding rapidly, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly

AL - Hoover's police cars are fueling America's future
Police cars are powered by wood-based ethanol produced from wood scrap and yard wastes

WI - Treehaven facility may receive biomass heating system
Treehaven, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point's residential natural resources education facility near Tomahawk, is one of nine sites around the state partaking in feasibility studies for biomass heaters.

Steve Walker named as finalist in Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award
Propell Energy is pleased to announce that Steve Walker, president and CEO of its parent company, New England Wood Pellet, LLC, is a finalist in this years New England regional Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award program.

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

New IRS $1,500 Tax Credit for 75-Percent-Efficient Biomass-Burning Stoves
Using Stimulus dollars to install a biomass heating system grows perennial jobs and infrastructure

MONTANA DNRC JUMPSTART 2 FOREST FUELS REDUCTION GRANT PROJECT
The Jumpstart 2 grant program will allocate a total of $4,845,500.00 dollars

Quebec forest act abolishes monopoly
Proposal calls for setting up a marketing board for the sale of almost a third of the province's timber to the highest bidder

MA - Fitchburg start-up providing employment boost
Much of the old equipment at the mill can be re-used to produce wood pellets

OR - Merkley, Wyden Announce $11.85 Million for Woody Biomass Projects
Recovery Act Funding to Create Clean Energy Jobs in Douglas, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, and Linn Counties

Schiller Station called disruptive by neighbors
One neighbor acknowledged that the Piscataqua is an industrial river and that "you were here first," but said that the "wood-burning plant made things worse."

IA - "Bio-reactor" being used on Webster City farm
"It's a large hole in the ground that's filled full of wood chips and we flood those wood chips with water

AZ - Local efforts to use wood cuttings get federal boost
Local efforts to find uses for small-diameter forest wood have received a huge boost with the announcement of a $1.4 million grant from the federal stimulus package

MT - Closing time for two mills
Plum Creek Timber Co. stopped the Pablo sawmill blades for the last time Friday and shuttered the Evergreen mill and remanufacturing plant indefinitely

British Columbia - Kalamalka Research Station goes greener
B.C.s Ministry of Forests replaced the research stations natural gas heating system with a wood pellet boiler/solar panel combination

Stockholm orders 85 timber-fueled buses from Scania
Unlike the U.S. and Brazil, where corn and sugar cane, respectively, are the primary feedstocks, Sweden is using waste from its timber industry

Wood Pellets Catch Fire as Renewable Energy Source
Some of the fastest growing sources of renewable energy in the world are the wind, the sun -- and the lowly wood pellet.

MN - Orr pursues wood-pellet manufacturer
Orr councilors okayed preliminary work to bring a wood pellet producer and as many as 60 jobs to Orr

MT - Stimson Lumber, Cooney deal falls through
Cooney's Montana Improvement Co. signed a buy-sell agreement with Stimson Lumber Co. in January with plans to finalize the deal in May. It didn't happen.

MT - Pyramid Mountain Lumber awarded $2 million in loans
Seeley Lake sawmill will get federal help. It's taken 15 months to arrange, but Missoula County's last remaining sawmill is being award $2 million in loans

Udall, Denver Water, Forest Service back Vail biomass plant to DOE
Plan would turn bark beetle-infested trees into clean thermal energy

Important New Details on tax credit for the purchase of a biomass-burning stove
The tax credit is a 30% tax credit of up to $1500 total over a two year period (2009-2010) for the purchase of a 75% efficient biomass-burning appliance

WA - State offers its stash of slash for entrepreneurs in wood-waste energy
State forest managers are hoping to stoke a burgeoning interest in renewable biomass energy by offering an inexpensive, abundant and guaranteed supply of logging slash

New Style Trailers can move woody biomass efficiently
It all started with a team of Forest Service researchers that combined a common logging trailer and an ordinary cargo container together

BC Looks to burn woody biomass
Dwindling supplies of sawmill residues are making it tough for bioenergy project developers looking to start-up a business because they have no raw material.

Company plans woody biomass power project in Longview, WA
A company that had planned to build an ethanol manufacturing plant in Longview now wants to build a facility that would burn wood waste to produce electricity.

Walden unveils new forest bill
Oregon Congressman's proposed legislation would improve forest health, expand woody biomass energy production and create jobs

Felony assault charges for 'Ax Men' star Mike Pihl
Pihl was arrested after allegedly flipping Jeep while drunk

Woody biomass to oil process could make forest thinning pay
For the past decade that the U.S. Forest Service has been pressing to thin hundreds of millions of acres of woods in danger of burning up, it has had one nagging problem: how to come up with the billions of dollars to pay for it.

Missouri Dept of Conservation offering Fuels for Schools grants to eligible schools
Six million dollars in grants will help school districts in southern Missouri reduce energy costs, create jobs and help forests through use of wood products for heating and cooling

Nexterras Biomass-to-Biogas Tech Gets $7.7M Infusion
Vancouver-based Nexterra has landed a new round of investment to prove its biomass-derived syngas can be fed directly into a General Electric engine in a British Columbia pilot project.

Logging contractors lose financial backing
Loans called for up to 35 British Columbia coast operators after financier goes into receivership

The Green Eyeshade Boys, by Jim Petersen
Jim Petersen's article on International Paper's position relative to woody biomass from federal timberlands draws response from IP

DOE Announces $21M For Cellulosic Feedstock Projects
Up to $21 million will be made available for five projects that will develop supply systems to handle and deliver high tonnage biomass feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels production.

We Energies plans biomass plant at Domtar Rothschild Mill site
50-megawatt renewable energy facility to be fueled by woody biomass

Evergreen Aviation 747 drops retardant on California wildfires
A modified Boeing 747 owned by McMinnville-based Evergreen Aviation made its first fire retardant drop Monday in the contiguous United States over wildfires raging in California.

The Alliance for Green Heat Looking to Hire
Full Time, Paid Internship

Dixie Pellets closes doors
We had an unusual and an unforeseen financial issue that arose yesterday that left no choice but to cease operations, said Bruce Gornto, the plants manager. We no longer have the funds to continue to operate.

Plans for U.S. Forest Service museum in Missoula to be unveiled
In a return to its historic roots, a new national museum will celebrate the U.S. Forest Service in Missoula

Idled lumber plants may get second life in bioenergy business
Some entrepreneurs are betting the answers will be found in biofuels and the emerging green economy.

Sweden consumes more than 20% of the worlds wood pellets and demand is growing
The decision by EU to use a minimum of 20% renewable energy by 2020 has driven a rapid increase in wood pellet production in Europe

A Vibrant Western Forests Products Industry Supports New Government Vision
The Western Forestry Leadership Coalition releases new video and recommendations on how revitalizing the forestry sector will play a critical role in the restoration of our nations forests and economies

BC - Pacific BioEnergy buys Kitwanga mill
Pacific BioEnergy vice-president Brad Bennett says Pacific BioEnergy intends to restart the mill and build a new pellet plant

Mascoma Opening Headquarters in New Hampshire
Mascoma owns and operates a large-scale demonstration facility in Rome, NY that produces cellulosic ethanol from non-food biomass feedstocks such as wood chips

School boiler fuels Wisconsin Governor's interest
"if we can get our public buildings on bio-mass, if we can ultimately get our corrections [facilities on bio-mass], we can move toward using those major public institutions in a way to really create a market."

Burn ban is a boon for business in Washington
Contractors and homeowners will no longer be allowed to burn debris from land clearing. That means theyll be grinding wood refuse into sawdust on site, or hauling it to composting centers

Tembec has sold its Mattawa sawmill for one dollar
Tembec's permanently closed sawmill in Mattawa, Ontario, along with its 55 hectare site, has been sold to the Mattawa Bonfield Economic Development Corp. for $1

Lining your pockets; warming your home
Homeowners can receive nearly $2,000 in tax credits for replacing inefficient woodstoves, pellet stoves or fireplaces

AL - The Impact of Dixie Pellets Closure
While the cause of this unforeseen financial issue is yet to be confirmed by the company, the results are certain and devastating for the local economy

Logging Capacity Crisis Looming?
How can logging companies maintain profitability in the face of housing and general economic slumps?

Biomass Crop Assistance Program Update
As of Aug 31,2009, 9 companies have been designated as "Qualified Biomass Conversion Facilities" by FSA

Putting the punch in pellets
International WoodFuels President Steve Mueller sees a budding market for his wood-based fuel and teaming up with golf tee manufacturer Pride Manufacturing Inc

Making the "perfect pellet"
New wood pellet plant brings jobs and hope to Barnstead, NH

Trade group sues N.H. wood pellet firm
A Greenland, N.H., wood pellet firm used counterfeit markings to indicate that its product was inspected for heat resistance, according to a lawsuit filed last week in federal court in Concord.

West Coast's log, lumber exports increase
A total of 239.5 million board feet of softwood logs and 80.2 million board feet of softwood lumber was exported from Washington, Oregon, northern California, and Alaska in April, May, and June of this year

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

Forest Service reunion topics cover myths, realities of fire
On Wednesday, Tom Tidwell, current chief of the Forest Service, is expected to join a panel that includes former chiefs R. Max Peterson, F. Dale Robertson, Jack Ward Thomas, Mike Dombeck, Dale Bosworth and Gail Kimbell

Wood recyclers go whole hog into biomass
Firm uses chips to combat downturn in wood products industry

Turning Dead Trees Into Green Heat
Bugs and disease are killing America's forests. Mark Mathis is turning all that biomass into green heat

Oregon Timber Operators Sue Obama Administration
The never-ending fight over northwest forests has returned to the courtroom.

FLD Biobaler WB55 Demonstrations to be Held in Minnesota
The bio-baler will be in Minnesota 9/17-24 starting in Waseca at the Southern Research and Outreach Center

Two PA firms receive grants and loans to build wood pellet plants
Keystone Pellet Inc and Tri State Biofuels LLC will receive over $2 million in grants & loans

AZ - White Mountain Stewardship contract reaches midpoint, deemed a success
The stewardship project is halfway through its 10-year contract and has proved to be successful, according to McClure Consulting

President Obama today announces his intent to nominate Harris Sherman
Sherman nominated to head The Natural Resources and Environment of USDA which includes the U.S. Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service

AU - Green light for wood pellet mill
Grant District Councils independent planning assessors have given approval for the $25m industrial wood pellet plant near Mount Gambier

Scotland - Rosyth biomass plant could create up to 200 jobs
ROSYTH port has been earmarked as a site for a biomass energy plant which could create 150 contruction jobs and 40 permanent positions

NH - Consortium seeks to boost wood manufacturers
The Northeast Utilities Foundation has provided a $150,000, two-year grant to help the North Country's wood products manufacturing industry

Roasted wood: an alternative to coal energy?
The James River Power Station in Springfield, Mo., has been working with torrefied wood, which looks like dark sawdust

Oregon Forestry board votes to increase logging on Tillamook and Clatsop forests
John Blackwell, chairman of the board, said the new plan will replace one approved in 2001 that never delivered on promises of timber production, fish and wildlife habitat or recreational opportunities.

Imports of logs, lumber and pulp to China increase substantially
China became the major import destination for many globally traded forest products in 2009

States forestry industry continues to thrive
Although the economy is sluggish throughout the country, a new study shows Mississippis forestry industry is staying strong.

CO - Stinger-Steered Chip Trailer Demonstration
Demonstration of converted conventional stinger steered log truck for chip hauling on Forest Roads Sept 21-23

The true costs of illegal logging
The World Bank estimates costs more than US$10 billion in lost sales and assets every year.

Biomass plant plan triggers questions
Wisconsin papermakers concerned about price of wood

State Looks To Rebound As Timber Business Declines
Joan Nichols is a strong, no-nonsense woman who has succeeded in the man's man world of the woods

Liberia Converting Old Rubber Trees to Electricity
Work begins this month on a new, environmentally-friendly power plant in Liberia that will use old rubber trees to generate electricity

Boardman OR - Poplar pulp may be converted to biofuel
The poplar trees here grow 10 feet a year, transforming an irrigated stretch of desert near the Columbia River into a neatly pruned forest. For now, the trees provide lumber for cabinets and pulp for paper.

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

CA - Fire destroys Weaverville lumber mill building
At the height of the fire, two air tankers dropped retardant on the main building to keep the fire from spreading

MT - Economic Analysis Bureau Launches New Web Site
The bureau's Forest Industry Research Program monitors industry operations in Montana, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming

Op-Ed, by Bob Zybach: The real cost of wildfires
The tab for U.S. wildfires as commonly reported by the news media is only a fraction of the full costs experienced by the public.

AL - Selma wood pellet plant files for Chapter 11
The Dixie Pellets plant owned by a unit of Harbert Power Fund III, has filed for Bankruptcy Court in Birmingham

WA - Company to make cutting-edge fuel from wood
Ferndale start-up Sea 2 Sky Corp. is poised to take its renewable bio-energy business into the big time using a high-heat processs to convert wood and wood fiber into a nonpolluting, high-energy alternative to coal

NC - Wood pellet plant begins operation
Carolina Wood Pellets LLC, a new manufacturing business in south Macon County, is in production after several years of planning and development and has begun selling its product.

Mascoma Lands Deal With Chevron to Produce Lignin, Ethanol
Mascoma, which wants to develop microbes that can convert woody biomass into ethanol, has signed a pretty important deal with Chevron Technology Ventures.

Company turns waste wood into fuel
The owner of Paul Wever Construction Equipment Co. in Goodfield is also president of Chip Energy, a business he hopes can help fuel a nationwide recycling program that would collect, process and reuse woody biomass

North Bay biomass conference to shed light on Ontario's wood fibre future
The school's new Biomass Innovation Centre is hosting the event entitled, Harness Biomass: From the Forest to the Marketplace takes place in North Bay, Oct. 22-23

Dovetail Partners Examines Selection of Green Flooring Materials
New report looks at life cycle impacts of alternatives

NB - Sawmill building biomass plants
J.D. Irving, Limited is looking to make a multi-million-dollar investment in its Saint-Lonard sawmill by adding a biomass thermal plant and pellet plant

NZ Forester Reported To Have Signed $1billion Deal For US Wood Pellets
In a coals-to-Newcastle deal, the company will supply Sea 2 Sky Corp with 250,000 tonnes of wood fibre over the first two years, increasing to 500,000 tonnes a year for the remainder of the contract

Scottish Wood pellet plant invests for the future
The Laurencekirk-based company has also purchased a specialist vehicle which blows a large volume of pellets straight into a customer's pellet storage hopper

$850,0000 grant to help U.S. Salt
The U.S. Salt Co.'s wood-fired boiler project gets an $850,000 boost from the State of New York

Feds help to boost U.P. biomass industry
The USDA FSA has certified L'Anse Warden Electric Company as the first plant in Michigan to be part of the Federal Biomass Crop Assistance Program

Damaged Wood Pellet Mill in Strong, Maine Approved for Loan
The Finance Authority of Maine has approved a half million dollar loan to help a wood pellet mill to re-build

US claim angers New Zealand forest firm
A forestry company is considering legal action after an American corporation incorrectly claimed to have secured a $1 billion deal to obtain New Zealand wood fibre.

AZ - Carving out a niche
AP Sawmill & Lumber Products takes wood that would normally be ground up and puts it to good use in an array of building products

Bids to be requested for Forks, PA biomass boiler
Quillayute Valley School District wants to make the Forks area greener -- at least in terms of saving energy

Environmental groups log former Plum Creek lands for sake of preservation, access
The land is part of a checkerboarded mix that once belonged to Plum Creek Timber Co. Last year

MT - Stimulus Grants for Biomass Energy Feasibility Studies
Governor Brian Schweitzer announces two Montana energy companies have been awarded a total of $425,000 in grants for biomass energy feasibility studies

PA - A boost for local wood industry
The Delaware-Highlands Conservancy (DHC) has produced a brochure that serves as a guide to available wood and forestry for three counties

Finding a market for Whistler's wood
B.C. Wood conference biggest yet, despite economic slowdown

PG&E inks contract to buy 'biomass' energy
PG&E said the project will produce 327,624 megawatt hours of electricity annually, enough to power 47,000 average homes.

Loggers, loggers, loggers -- we needed more loggers
And they came from all over the countryFrom disaster, S.C. emerges as national success story after hurricane Hugo

Biomass Project Development Joint Venture and Investment announced
Newly formed joint venture to develop biomass-energy plants throughout the Northeastern United States

Wisconsin countertop maker buys Rapid City, SD particleboard plant
About two-thirds of the workers at Rapid City's Merillat particleboard plant will keep their jobs at the plant, employees said after a meeting with new management Friday morning

US Endowment For Forestry & Communities Announces Grant Award
Tough Times Drive Innovation and Unique Partnerships to Retain Manufacturing Jobs, Enhance Forest Health and Produce Renewable Energy

AZ - Grants proved windfall for Rim forests
Tonto National Forest gets $4 million, Apache Sitgreaves gets $17 million as federal funding used to thin 8,000 acres in Rim Country

BC - Future bright for logging business
"We still have 120 people employed in the area and we are looking at opportunities to expand says Wayne Drury

MT - Bitterroot helicopter logging company receives honor, loses contract
R&R Conner Aviation got good news and bad news, both in the same day

OR - Timber company gets $100,000 federal grant
The Swanson Group will use the money to implement advanced software and to conduct a market analysis

New California rules allow timber firms to sell carbon credits
Environmental groups criticize the Schwarzenegger-backed changes, which allow the companies to benefit from the fight against global warming while continuing to clear-cut forests.

Rehberg promotes biomass for schools, hospitals
Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT) has sponsored legislation to help schools and communities generate energy from woody biomass

MT - Ravalli County, Forest Service at odds over logs, slash
The U.S. Forest Service is investigating whether timber was stolen and trespassing occurred during a controversial roadway improvement project in Ravalli County.

NH - School's wood chip heating system a money saver
Subtracting the cost of the wood chips used last year 200 tons at rougly $13,000 Walasewicz said "you're close to $50,000 in annual savings based on market fluctuation."

AL - Butler County to get new $10M sawmill, 265 jobs
Officials with Coastal Forest Products LLC say they plan to build a new sawmill and plywood manufacturing facility

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

NY - Keeping forests, profits healthy
The economics of owning forestland and making paper had changed, and so the Finch Paper mill had to change too

New reason to hug trees with wood-pellet mills
America now has more than 100 wood-pellet mills, and more are being built to capture our country's source of energy

2010 Joint Fire Sciences Program Request for Applications is OPEN
There are 3 distinct task statements, The announcement will close on November 20th

IA - Davenport woman goes into pellets-for-fuel business
Cindy Williams has purchased a company that sells machines to make pellets used primarily for burning as fuel in pellet stoves

MS - Bank orders Brookhaven's Columbus Lumber closed
Operations at Brookhaven's Columbus Lumber Co. have ceased, making the prestigious old sawmill the latest and most visible local victim of the national recession

Exports of wood chips from Australia have declined 28% in 2009
However, the country is still the largest chip exporter in the world, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly

Companies to launch the largest wood-processing plant in NW Russia
Total investment volume amounted to EUR 80 billion

WA - Old Sawmill Site Temporarily Shut Down
A massive fire at the old Boise Cascade Mill this weekend may have been the last straw. Dunollie Enterprises has been told to stop all work at the site

WoodPellets.com Is the First to Publicly Report Wood Pellet Quality Test Results
New Quality Control Procedures and Improved Delivery Mechanism Guarantee Consumers Easy, Fast and Affordable Access to Top-Grade Wood Pellets

Vermont's first wood pellet plant opens
Katie Adams, president, says "As you can see from our plant - they're coming in to get twelve tons every two hours so we're selling everything we can make!"

Proposals Sought for 2010 Woody Biomass Utilization Grant Program
At least $4 million and possibly more is available for grants that address dealing with low-valued material removed from hazardous fuel reduction activities on both public and private lands

State Foresters Praise Interior Bill That Sets up FLAME Fund
Senate leaders unanimously approved the creation of a separate source of funding for federal agencies to suppress large-scale wildfires

Senators introduce biochar technology bill
The bill would establish U.S. Department of Interior and USDA loan guarantee programs to develop biochar demonstration projects

Fuels for Schools grants will help six Missouri school districts
Six million dollars in federal stimulus money will soon be headed to Missouri schools. They're part of the Fuels for Schools grants program.

UK - Worlds largest biomass plant gets environmental clearance
The 350 MW facility, powered by wood chips from sustainable sources, is expected to produce enough electricity to power 500,000 Welsh homes

Astec acquires wood pellet machine maker
Astec Industries Inc., a maker of asphalt paving and other equipment for public works, says it has acquired a Canadian wood pellet machine manufacturing company

University of Idaho completes first 60 days of biomass drying with successful results
The results are exciting and the Advanced Trailer for Biomass is working. A number of trailers loaded with biomass have now been successfully dried

CA - Sierra Pacific Industries makes huge carbon deal
Sierra Pacific Industries, and Equator, LLC, a natural resources asset management firm, announced they have entered into the nation's single largest pre-compliance forest carbon transaction to date.

Biomass moving in
It appears the planned biomass switch at a pair of Northwestern Ontario coal-fired generating stations is moving full steam ahead

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".

Malaysia adopts RFID in timber industry
The project involved forest officers taking inventory of the designated 129,143 hectare plot and tagging all trees suited for timber with RFID labels

WA - Fueling a New Industry: Companies Turn Waste Wood into Energy
According to Shawn Montee "There was all this good biomass," he said. "It was sad to see it go up in flames."

PA - State hardwoods industry in a struggle
The worldwide economic downturn hit hard in Pennsylvanias woodlands. Industry groups estimate 25,000 forest products jobs have been lost since 2006

AK - TOK Advanced Power Woody Biomass Gasification Project
The proposed project combines Nexterras proprietary gasification technology and syngas conditioning system with GE Energys expertise in high-efficiency IC (internal combustion) engines

California's Timber Industry Strikes Gold
Thanks to a decision handed down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

Danish secrets of renewable energy
We've been introduced to a whole new world in Copenhagen. Green energy is the norm. People "believe" in climate change

Opinion: The trees are there; we need the will
As a third-generation Clancy MT area sawmill operator, I've watched in dismay as, one by one, my fellow sawmill operators have fallen by the wayside and closed operations over the past 20 years

ME - The Wilderness Society releases new wood to energy report
A new report sets out to document the costs and benefits of a range of wood biomass energy options currently under consideration in western Maine and northern New Hampshire

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

Western Forestry Leadership Coalition Selects Caitlyn Peel as new Executive Director
Prior to joining the WFLC, Peel served as the Staff Vice President for Government and Environment Affairs for the Home Builders Association of St. Louis and Eastern Missouri

Enligna Canada, a wood pellet manufacturer, is expanding its production capabilities
With headquarters in Germany, Enligna's Canadian operations are the fourth-largest producer of wood pellets in Canada

Global trade of wood chips down 26% in 2009
The international financial crisis has put a damper on global trade of wood chips used for pulp manufacturing in 2009, reports Wood Resources International

NH - Pellet-Selling Prison Official in Trouble Again
The legal problems are mounting for a lieutenant with the state Department of Correction, who is accused of running a business while he was out of work and collecting disability payments

NY - Chips supplier defaults on contract with OBPA
A storage agreement between the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority and a New York-based wood chips supplier that was finalized five months ago has fallen through

European pellet output amounted to approximately 7.5 million tons in 2008
The wood pellet industry in Europe encompassed some 482 producers with works in 20 European countries last yea

BCAP Revisited
Forest2Mill's newsletter article about the Biomass Crop Assistance Program generated significant interest and, it turns out, controversy

New Zealand pays millions to timber firms after forecast failure
New Zealand government is making a NZ$ 4 million ex-gratia payment to four mills.

Work Showcases Best-in-Class Wood to Energy Systems
Study shows wood to energy Affordable, Dependable Approaches for Schools, Hospitals and even Entire Communities

First and largest forest carbon origination pipeline program in the US
Created and managed by C2I, LLC, GreenTrees currently has a total of 30 carbon sequestration properties located in the Delta regions of Arkansas and Louisiana

AL - Company to start producing wood pellets
The plant will have about 25 employees and the total venture costs Lee about $7.5 million

Canfor Nets $122M in Green Transformation Dollars
Prince George, B.C.- Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership has been allotted more than $122 million dollars in credits under the Federal Governments billion dollar Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program

Master of Science in Forestry Thesis, by Aaron Kash
The Use of Roll-Off Bins and a Hook-lift Equipped Harwarder and Truck for Forest Biomass Utilization

Jakarta - Medco plans wood pellet production
Medcopapua Industri Lestari, a subsidiary of the Medco Group, to produce 200,000 tons of wood pellets per year starting next year

International WoodFuels Installs Wood Pellet Boilers for Franklin Pierce University
The system will reduce the Franklin Pierce's annual fuel costs

MT - Building With New Efficiency
Company promises highly sustainable, environmental buildings

CO - Co-firing woody biomass, coal, and, gas to make electricity
A great video showing the Colorado Springs Utilities plant incorporating woody biomass as a 3rd fuel supply

Service Forester position currently available in Lead, SD
This is a permanent full time position with the State of South Dakota, and includes a full benefit package including health insurance, leave package, and retirement benefits.

BC - Coastal first nations loggers land China export deal
The largest first nations-owned logging company in the province has begun shipping logs to China, bringing jobs and revenues into the province's economically hard-hit northwest

More states turning to wood power
Electricity source on 'meteoric' rise, but critics fear losing trees

The Biomass Power Association Launches New Web Video: Energy For America
Many people have heard of biomass power, but few realize how significantly it can contribute to the nations energy needs.

BC - Timber industry braces for rough year as loonie climbs a tree
A high flying loonie has the timber industry bracing for another tough year

Montanas Pine Beetle Infestation Video
Red and Dead - Montana's Pine Beetle Infestation

FL - Brantley getting $130 million fuel pellet plant
A new company announces plans for a $130 million factory in Brantley County that will turn waste forest products into fuel pellets and electricity

PA - Wood-chip ethanol maker opens plant
Start-up Coskata on Thursday is starting up a facility that can turn wood chips into ethanol, a step toward producing at large scale next year.

Optimism Reins at Idaho Forest Group
Even with today's historic low prices for lumber - 40 percent lower than three years ago - Idaho Forest Group is determined to weather the storm and come out on top

ME - Pellet mill planned in Houlton
An energy company plans to build a wood pellet manufacturing facility in Houlton that could create up to 40 jobs.

New pellet technology boiling Fort Kent diner
Pinette, owner of Rocks Diner, knew he had to do something about his heating bill when oil began flirting with $5 a gallon in northern Maine

$150 million wood-fired power plant OK'd
Charleston, WV developer building clean-energy plant in Mingo County

Idaho Women in Timber Branches Out to Community
The Kootenai Valley Chapter of Women in Timber is a group that addresses timber-related issues in Boundary County

93 will lose jobs when Naples, Idaho sawmill closes
Welco Lumber Company USA, which makes cedar picket fence boards, announces that it can operate more efficiently by closing its Naples mill and concentrating production at its main Shelton, Wash., sawmill.

Salazar reveals new Oregon timber plan
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announces a Western Oregon timber plan that would yield 230 million board feet of timber over the next year

Interpellets 2009 Trade Fair Undergoing Transformation
Strong Internationalization Changing the Industry

Vermont's McNeil Generating Station a National Model for Woody Biomass
Biomass proponents in Western Mass. look to McNeil Generating Station in Vermont to see how a successful plant can operate

VT - College on willow power
Middlebury College used to heat its buildings with oil, then switched to wood chips. Now it has planted a sustainable and relatively cheap fuel source - willow shrubs

Green Circle to build new wood pellet fuel plant
Green Circle chose to pick its second location outside of Florida to diversify access to raw materials for the pellets

Clean-power vision grows where Alberta forests fall
The province announced Wednesday it's giving Minnesota-based Otoka Energy Corp. a total of $25 million in grants to develop a first-of-its-kind waste-to-energy gasification plant

Innovative Partnership to Develop Community Based Biomass Power in Montana
NorthWestern Energy and the Montana Community Development Corporation (MCDC) are partnering with eight Montana sawmills and public and private landowners to help develop community-based biomass power in Montana

Last man standing
Bonner, MT - Don Pyette has 36 years in the timber industry and a deep respect for wood workers and mill veterans

Morbark to build biomass-to-energy gear
Morbark Inc. signed an agreement with a technology company that will make it the manufacturing arm of a company that creates waste-to-energy systems.

CA - Arcata Forest signs on to new carbon program
Arcata has committed just over 20 percent of its community forest to grow trees and store carbon, part of a contract with the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. meant to reduce greenhouse gases.

The Promise Of The Biomass Crop Assistance Program
Without responsible oversight, the benefits of the Biomass Crop Assistance Program could fall victim to its own popularity.

Timber industry offers hope for forest health
Landscape-changing events are taking place in Colorados forests, and the public is beginning to take notice.

BC - Communities buy Hanceville sawmill
The First Nations communities of Anaham, Redstone, Stone, and Toosey have purchased the Sigurdson Brothers Sawmill near Hanceville for $780,000

Advanced Trailer Launches 3rd Project Using Trailer to Remove Moisture from Biomass
Integro Earth Fuels LLC, becomes third in U.S. to use Advanced Trailer's patent-pending technology to remove moisture from woody biomass materials

Pellet Fuels Instute Co-Hosts Biomass Thermal Energy Policy Briefing
Biomass Industry Leaders will Gather November 6th To Unify Policy Efforts

Tech company to automate biggest 'green diesel' plant in the U.S.
Located in Park Falls, Wisconsin, the plant will process 1,000 dry tons of woody biomass from bark, sawdust and residue from forest harvesting per day to produce energy transportation fuels and chemicals

Mike DeBonis Named Forest Guild Executive Director
Mike is a Forest Guild professional member and licensed Maine forester

LA - IP's Pineville Mill to close in mid-December
More than 2,100 people are expected to be directly or indirectly affected by the closure of International Paper's Pineville Mill

AK - Coast Guard turns to wood for heat
Biomass projects in Ketchikan and Sitka could boost Southeast timber industry

South Korea's forest agency tackles emissions
South Korea plans to produce 5 million tons of wood pellets by 2020 1 million domestically and four millions overseas. This will cut back 6.7 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

Utah biomass energy project gets $2.5M grant
Viresco Energy LLC is a company headed by a southern California real-estate developer who owns a ranch in Alton in southern Utah, where Jim Guthrie proposes to turn wood waste, manure or coal into 40 barrels of fuel a day.

France - New eco-friendly woody biomass heating in La Plagne
The new biomass heating is housed in a new chalet-style building at the entrance to Plagne Centre

IP to close its Franklin, VA, paper mill, Pineville, LA, and Albany, OR, containerboard mills
These permanent closures will reduce the companys annual paper and board production by 2.1 million tons

Power plant wants to keep it clean using woody biomass as feedstock
$200 million project under way for FirstEnergy's R.E. Burger to kick dirty coal habit by switching to greener wood pellets

Maine's pellet-producing plants going strong
The state's capacity for manufacturing wood pellets is in for a significant upgrade

Wisconsin advanced biofuel project picks up steam
The pace is picking up for Flambeau River BioFuel LLCs project to convert Wisconsin wood into biomass-based diesel

AK - Tongass wars flare over Logjam timber sale
Conservation groups and the U.S. Forest Service have fought for decades over management of the country's largest national forest. The wrangling has gone on for so long it has a name: The Tongass Wars

Pellets from Siberia: DOK ENISEY experience
In 2006 DoK Enisey was one of the first companies that launched pellet production and to some extent it was a kind of a lottery, says Alexander Zhevlakov, technical director of the company

West Coast Forest Products of Arlington, WA to build sawmill in Arizona
West Coast Forest Products of Arlington, Washington is pleased to announce that they are locating a state-of-the-art, high production sawmill to the White Mountain region from Washington state

Canadian home builders scramble to meet demand
The Canadian housing market's surprising turnaround is spreading to new home construction as developers scramble to respond to a supply shortage that has sent pricing soaring for existing homes

ID: Biomass meeting draws a crowd
A proposed facility would utilize woody biomass as a primary fuel, churning out roughly 6-20 megawatts of electricity

NB: Province announces $5 million for Groupe Savoie
The joint federal and provincial funding will allow the hardwood processing company to add a wood pellet and briquette manufacturing plant to its business

MT - Timber company receives energy conservation rebate check
A Greener and More Efficient Plum Creek Timber Company

Florida company acquires Columbus Lumber Co
Doug Boykin said the Brookhaven sawmill was purchased from Bank of America by Rex Lumber LLC, a multi-company lumber corporation headquartered in Graceville, Fla

OR - Ochoco Lumber Co. receives $4.89 Million grant for wood pellet plant
Ochoco Lumber, along with its partner Bear Mountain Forest Products, will produce pine fuel pellets for retail sale in the Pacific Northwest as well as Bear Bricks, a compressed fuel product

WI - Flambeau River BioFuels taps Honeywell for biomass-to-biofuels plant
Project supporters claim The Flambeau River Papers plant will be the first integrated pulp and paper mill in North America to run on fossil-free energy

Timber Falls, But Manufacturing Rises in the Panhandle of Idaho
What stands out from the first annual Economic Outlook Forum that was held in Sandpoint is the extent to which the panhandle continues to grow away from its roots in the timber industry

Finnish paper company to sever ties with logging firm linked to rainforest destruction in Indonesia
UPM-Kymmene will stop buying paper pulp from Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited due to concerns over the company's poor environmental record

Endowment to Host Dialogue with Conservation Thinkers
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities will host two webinars on Conservation Innovation Grants (Nov 30th and Dec 9th)

Forest managers investigate 'CROP'
Expansive wood supply information now available online

BC - Burns Lake woody biomass energy plant deal inked
Project still needs to secure wood fibre

Biomass breakthrough
The workhorse of renewable fuels in Missouri may be found in its forests, farms and pastures.

Boise and Batelle to conduct study of carbon capture and storage technology
The project will focus on capture technology developed by Fluor Corp., Irving, Texas, and will take place at Boise's pulp and paper mill near Wallula, Wash

Replace coal with wood pellets to generate electricity?
Push for alternatives to coal lights a fire under wood-pellet industry in Alberta, Canada

North state wood pellet mill one of few in California
"This is a local mill for local people, and it's sized for it," says Al Grana, owner of Mr Pellet in Anderson

ENERGY-US: Paper Mill Is Reborn, Sans Fossil Fuels
A paper mill that runs without fossil fuels and has a neutral carbon footprint? That's the goal for Flambeau River Papers in Park Falls, Wisconsin

Resilience Report Highlights Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Communities
This report explores the state-of-the-issue of community resilience of rural, often forest-based communities in the US

New wood biomass website
RISI Announces Launch of North America's Only Dedicated Wood Biomass Website

Wood pellet plant coming to West Sac port
The West Sacramento Planning Commission on Thursday approved a conditional-use permit for Enligna US to develop a wood-pellet manufacturing plant at the facility.

New pellet plant in Alberta will transform wood waste
An Edmonton company has partnered with Sundance Forest Industries to turn wood waste into wood pellets

Hartford schools ready to fire up wood chip plant
"We are going to be the first public school to burn wood chips in New York state," said Thomas Abraham, superintendent.

Pellet Fuels Institute announces fuel standards program
New, more stringent fuel standards requirements and quality assurance program will help homeowners match pellet fuel with their appliance

TNC and Blue Source Launch Innovative Forest Carbon Offering
"Working Woodlands" is a new model of conservation that puts the growing market for carbon credits to work as a means to promote high quality forest conservation strategies on private lands

WI - Position announcement :
Assistant Professor of Energy Policy

BC - Region eyed up for wood pellet plant location
AN INTERNATIONAL company says it is on the fast track to build a wood pellet-producing plant in the Terrace, BC area.

New Report - Tapping Our Forests for Green Energy
Forest restoration could produce renewable biofuels

Sealaska to Convert Plaza to Woody Biomass Fuel
In 2010, Sealaska Corporations corporate headquarters in Juneau will become the first commercial building in Alaska to convert to renewable bio-energy and use wood pellets for heating fuel

Rapid expansion of wood pellet capacity in North America drives sawdust and wood chip prices upward
The wood pellet industry in North America has grown six-fold since 2004, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review

NY - Plans for pellet plant get state funding
An investment company looking to build a pellet plant in Tupper Lake will use a $76,500 grant from the state to develop a business plan to engage investors

OR - Mill closure: Strictly business
International Paper official explains decision to close Albany Paper Mill

MT - Smurfit-Stone to permanently close Frenchtown mill Dec ember 31st
All 417 workers will lose their jobs.

Weyerhaeuser board OKs conversion to REIT status
"This conversion will position us to be more competitive in our timberlands business," President and CEO Dan Fulton said in a statement"

BC - Bioenergy proposal gains traction
Houston, TX-based Zilkha Biomass Energy is proposing to build a plant that could process up to 500,000 cubic metres of wood per year into wood pellets bound for export markets in Europe

Japan calls for eco-safe chips
JAPANESE companies have demanded Tasmania provide them with Forest Stewardship Council accredited woodchips

Indonesia firm picks wood pellet mill over pulp mill
Medco has dropped plans for its pulp and paper mill and instead is focusing on a smaller-scale $70 million facility to produce wood pellets

Ponsse launches new woody biomass BTS bunk system
The new system allows loads to exceed standard fixed bunks by more than 50 percent when compressing forest residue.

AR - Lumber company celebrates centennial despite troubled times
James Bibler recalls a day when things were simpler, but in his line of business, simpler doesnt necessarily mean better

Rex Lumber modernizes-expands plant during market downturn
Rex hired Rawlings Industrial, whose construction team worked with existing Rex employees

Japan aims to double timber self-sufficiency rate to 50% in 10 years
Japan aims to increase the road density for two-thirds of artificial forests in Japan to 100 meters per hectare, a level similar to Germany

AU - Gunns buys out Great Southern forestry plantations
Forestry company is set to takeover eight Great Southern managed investment schemes in Victoria and South Australia.

Magalia reforestation nursery chopped down by state budget problem
California's only state-owned reforestation nursery will close early next year, becoming the latest victim to the state's unprecedented fiscal crisis

ONT - Studying biomass economics
Tembec conducts operational trials, harvesting Crown biomass from Ontario forests remains a speculative market

John Deere Forestry presents 6 Harvesting Woody Biomass Videos
Harvesting Potential in our Backyard What is biomass, biomass harvesting and its potential?

AU - A new Timber Industry Strategy for Victoria
The Victorian Government has released a new Timber Industry Strategy to provide a framework and long-term direction for the Victorian timber industry for the next 20 years

Chuck Leavell Knows a Thing or Two About Carbon
"Laws must incentivize carbon-cutting forest management practices, says Chuck Leavell", Rolling Stones keyboard player and Georgia Tree Farmer

MT - Timber industry cyclical within itself
As one sector loses, another gains. The news of Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. closing its Frenchtown mill aside, Montana timber workers are cautiously optimistic about their prospects in 2010

Founder of Columbia Helicopters dies
Wes Lematta, who started Columbia Helicopters in 1957, died December 24, 2009

USDA Forest Service looking to hire Senior Project Leader
This position is located in the San Dimas Technology and Development Center at San Dimas, CA serving as a technical expert and advisor for projects

Naperville, IL aims to run city vehicles on 'gasified' bio-waste
The 12-foot-high machine uses products such as wood chips from municipal tree trimming or corn cobs and stalks left after the harvest

News on Biomass Crop Assistance Program
First Quarter 2010 Funding for BCAP Raises Concern and Delay in Releasing Rules

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