The topic of this year’s annual forestry tour with the Clatsop Forestry and Wood Products Economic Development Committee was the potential of biomass.
The topic of this year’s annual forestry tour with the Clatsop Forestry and Wood Products Economic Development Committee was the potential of biomass.
It was a chance for the group – which ranged from state Sen. Betsy Johnson and community leaders to interested citizens – to “stay informed on what’s going on in the forests, on what are the economic news items, hot topics or problems,” said Glenn Ahrens, Oregon State University extension forester.
Biomass travels from local forests to places like the Georgia-Pacific Wauna paper plant or to lumber mills for hog fuel. But Dean Larson, owner of Custom Excavating and Trails End Recovery, hopes some of it could stay right here and be turned into electricity.
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