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Biomass Development: Clean Energy or Threat to Oregon's Forests?
Biomass energy development is a promising form of alternative energy--but some special interests are seeking to exploit it to promote more reckless logging.
“Biomass utilization” is a term used to describe small-diameter trees and understory vegetation removed from forests and put to a variety of uses such as electricity generation, dimensional lumber, fencing, framing material, poles, firewood, furniture, chips and pulp for paper. Oregon Wild supports conservative biomass utilization when it is a by-product of valid forest restoration efforts.