New technologies for low-impact harvesting and slash bundling are now available. Where's the steady supply of biomass to make these technologies viable? In our national forests!

This Timberjack-John Deere bundler assembles a biomass bale in a field test conducted on private forest land south of Missoula. About 30 of the $600,000 machines are operating worldwide, none in the US. But in the the course of our investigation we found three companies in Idaho and Montana willing to buy the machines on federal government assurance of a supply of wood fiber sufficient to justify the investment.

Source: Evergreen Journal, Spring 2004

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Many areas of our national forests and woodlands contain an overabundance of trees due to a century of fire suppression and inadequate management, constituting a ready supply of biomass that can be converted to alternative energy, whether by grid-tie, ethanol, or hydrogen.