Tagged: Department Of Natural Resources

Forest Biomass
4:11 pm
Tue March 13, 2012

An Underused Resource In Washington: Forest Biomass

Credit Photo credit: Walter Siegmund / Wikimedia commons
The forest biomass like that in the Wenatchee Mountains is an underused resource in Washington.

Renewable energy is growing on trees in Washington, and right now, much of it is going up in smoke.

That’s the word from Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark, who has released the results of a study on forest biomass. Goldmark says industry is currently using only about a third of the woody biomass that could be sustainably harvested and then converted into liquid fuel or heat for electricity generation.

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