Tag: beetles
Beetle-Kill Fuels Bioenergy
– by Kelly Hatton, July 17, 2014, Western Confluence On a morning in early March, I ride with Cody Neff, owner of West Range Reclamation (WRR), in his truck from Frisco, Colorado, to the company’s nearby worksite in the White River National Forest. Light is just starting to reach over the high snow-covered slopes surrounding Frisco, but Neff…
From Beetle Kill to Biomass
[More industry propaganda than a news article, but it demonstrates the biomass industry’s lust for National Forests to feed their dirty incinerators. -Ed.] – by Ruth Heide, July 22, 2014, Valley Courier There’s a different kind of “gold” in “them thar hills.” It’s in the trees themselves. Correctly harvested, the beetle kill timber that exists on…
220,000 acres of Colorado’s White River National Forest to be Logged for Biomass Energy
Demand for biomass energy in Colorado will require logging in 220,000 acres of the White River National Forest. -Ed. – by Allen Best, March 6, 2014. Source: Mountain Town News For most of the last decade, Coloradans have been talking about how to make good use of their mountain forests, dying and gray. Something is finally…
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