FL - Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Cost-Share Program The Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Cost Share Program is offered to eligible non-industrial private forest landowners by the Division of Forestry (DOF) through temporary grants from the USDA Forest Service
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
AL - Federal Jury Rules Baldwin Biofuel Entrepreneur Must Pay $10.4 Million Montrose resident Jack Boykin spent years pitching a revolutionary invention to produce cheap biofuel from vegetable matter a process so fantastic is seemed, to some, just too good to be true
MI - Looking to Hire - Woody Biomass Supply Chain Engineer The Department of Forestry MSU is seeking applicants for a full-time Assistant Professor position with expertise in harvesting, pre-processing, transport, and storage of woody biomass
California Cement Plant Uses Biomass With Coal In Kilns Mitsubishi Cement in Lucerne Valley, Calif., has acquired a Rawlings Manufacturing Wood Hog, enabling it to use both coal and biomass in its cement kilns
MN - Bioenergy Park To Be Developed On Former Ainsworth Plant Site Mary Eaton and Robin Larson of The Idea Circle Inc., announced Tuesday they have purchased the former Ainsworth Engineered LLC site east of Bemidji to develop a Bioenergy Park
MA - Biomass or Biomess? The State Forges Ahead With Many Questions Unanswered Private developers have their eyes on four Western Massachusetts communitiesRussell, Springfield, Pittsfield, and Greenfieldfor large-scale wood-burning electrical plants
OR - Spring Slumber Is Over For Gilchrist Lumber Mill After sitting idle for four months, Interfor Pacifics Gilchrist mill is ramping up again, and officials are calling about 70 employees back to work
NM - Rio Grande Flooring Distributors Sourcing Mesquite Flooring New Mexico flooring distributor sorucing 8,000 Sq Ft of Mesquite flooring for academic institution no substitute
OR - New Biomass Power Plant To Bring Jobs To La Pine Biogreen Sustainable Energy out of St. Helens Oregon will build and operate the plant. It expects the plant to bring twenty direct jobs, with as many as ninety indirect jobs
NW Montana Schools Seeking Wood Biomass Fuel Suppliers Glacier High School, Kalispell is currently inviting bids for a high quality, reliable supply of wood biomass fuel to utilize in their wood-fired boiler
CO - Wildfire Simulations Aim To Educate Residents First drill this year encourages residents to evacuate in real emergency
Forest Service Disagrees With Study On Thinning National Fire Director Tom Harbour said Friday that by its count 43 percent of the 10.8 million acres treated by federal agencies in recent years was in and around communities threatened by wildfire
Boise Cascade Buys E. Ore. Sawmill A subsidiary of Boise Cascade has bought a sawmill at Pilot Rock in northeastern Oregon
NZ - Telescopic Handler Puts Woodchips In Their Place Due to the large areas of land being converted out of forestry to dairying Noel Richmonds business has been busy
Japanese Biomass Power Plants Struggle With Shortages About 30 percent of woody biomass power station operators have suspended or reduced operations due to a shortage of thinned wood and wood chips used for generating power, according to a recent survey by The Yomiuri Shimbun.
SC - Firm To Build Cogeneration Facility At SRS Ameresco Inc. has been awarded a $795 million contract by the Department of Energy to construct a biomass cogeneration facility and two smaller biomass heating facilities at the DOEs Savannah River Site in Aiken
Germany - Efficient Generation Of Power From Finely Chopped Material The new biomass heating and power station of the Zweckverband Restmllheizkraftwerk Bblingen (RBB) in the German Land of Baden-Wrttemberg has now started regular operations
AU - Tassie Timber Mill Gains Joint-Venturer Timber Communities Australia (TCA) spokeswoman Eva Down says timber families can now see the light at the end of the tunnel after the gloom of the global financial crisis
AU - Forestry Review Calls For Tougher Sanctions Against Loggers FORESTRY agreements set up by the Federal Government have done little to protect the environment from logging, a review of Australia's national environmental laws has found.
First Biomass Pellet Mill In US To Receive FSC/Rainforest Alliance Certification The Rainforest Alliances SmartWood program has certified the first biomass pellet mill in the United States to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards, a significant step in the FSCs entry into renewable energy sources
Softwood Sawmills Around The Globe Incur EBITDA Losses Averaging US$-12/m3 In 2008 Sawmills around the world experienced some of the worst losses in recent history during 2008 and early 2009. The global average losses (on an EBITDA basis) were US$-12/m3 (net lumber basis) in 2008 and fell even further in Q1 2009 to US$-14/m3
Wood Chip Import Prices To Japan Reached Record Highs In The 4Q/08 Wood fiber consumption by the Japanese pulp industry reached a record high in 2008. Over 72 percent of the consumed wood chips were imported, most from hardwood
plantations in the Southern Hemisphere
ME - U.S. Pulp-Maker Pioneers New Biofuel Production is still two years away, but the reinvention of Maine's Old Town Fuel & Fiber mill is already drawing interest as a potential model for a new wave of biofuel companies
Ethan Allen To Lay Off 320 Workers, Close Maine Facility Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. plans to lay off another 320 employees as the Danbury-based furniture maker consolidates its case goods operations