In the News

Media

National

• The Forestry Source: Assessing forestation opportunities for carbon sequestration in Minnesota (June 2010, 15(6):12, 15)
• White House/Secretary of Agriculture: Clean Energy Economy Forum (May 5, 2010)
• USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station: Research Highlights—Biomass Utilization (March 11, 2010)
• Twin Cities Public Television: "Seeing the Forests and the Trees," TPT (February 7, 2010)
• Smallwood-News: New Forest Guild policy aimed at bioenergy and climate change (January 25, 2010)
• Associated Press: Bio-fuel growth raises concerns about forests (Nov 23, 2009)
• Fire Science Digest: Making biomass pay: Obstacles and opportunities (September 2009) (15,000+ distributed)
• Smallwood-News: New Report—Conventional wisdoms of woody biomass utilization (August 12, 2009)
• EESI (Environmental and Energy Study Institute): U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Briefing—Forest biomass and its role in a national Renewable Electricity Standard (March 4, 2009)
• NCASI (National Council for Air and Stream Improvement): University of Minnesota report summarizes state policies on woody biomass utilization (January 30, 2009; 21(1)
• The Forestry Source: Nationwide analysis offers lessons from biomass removal projects (December 2008, 13(12):15)
• Smallwood-News: MN—The need for a biomass policy database (December 8, 2008)
• Smallwood-News: New US Forest Service report—an integrated approach to evaluating the economic costs of wildfire hazard reduction through wood utilization opportunities in the southwestern United States (July 16, 2008)

Regional

• Minnesota Landscape Arboretum: Woodbasket in the forest? (June 2010). Interpretive sign for public viewing.
• Minnesota Public Radio:Northern Minnesota cities burn wood for power (May 21, 2010)
• Interlochen Public Radio: Can the forest survive alongside biomass? (April 21, 2010)
• Minnesota Public Radio: Are too many forests being cut down for biomass? (November 21, 2009)
• Office of the Governor: Governor Pawlenty announces Next Generation Energy Grants to accelerate biofuel development (November 6, 2008)
• International Falls Daily Journal: Most private owners show little interest in timber harvests (May 31,2007)

University of Minnesota

• Solutions: Fuel from the forest floor: Scientists look at viability of a sustainable woody biomass industry (Fall 2009, pp 20-22)
• Digital Media Center: Wikis and the writing-intensive classroom (Oct 16, 2007)

Featured Websites

• Forest Guild: Woody biomass removal case studies
• Pinchot Institute for Conservation: 2009 Regional Meeting—The Great Lakes Region