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<p>Lance, surely you've come upon some science that examines the
dark side of this equation--the environmental costs of removing
biomass from forests and burning them.</p>
<p>Jeff Juel<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/28/2016 11:24 AM, Lance Olsen via
Missoula-Community-News wrote:<br>
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<title>Is forest biomass a hot new opportunity for rural
jobs?</title>
<div><font face="Verdana">Forest Policy and Economics Volume 74,
January 2017, Pages 20-29<br>
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The potential rural development impacts of utilizing
non-merchantable
forest biomass<br>
Mindy S. Crandall et al<br>
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Highlights<br>
*A market model was used to assess the potential for forestry
to
impact rural communities.<br>
*High prices and low costs were necessary to stimulate rural
development through biomass use.<br>
*Policies such as establishment subsidies encouraged some
additional
development.<br>
*Increases in federal biomass had little effect on
establishment in
most locations.<br>
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Keywords<br>
Rural communities; Market model; Public lands; Forest
management<br>
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Abstract<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934116304075">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934116304075</a></font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana">The development of a market for
currently
non-merchantable forest material, such as harvest residues or
small
diameter trees, has been suggested as a possible win-win
solution that
could: (i) provide a material that can be processed in rural
communities reeling from changes in the forest products
industry and
policy environment; (ii) capture more value from timber
management
activities; and (iii) provide a financial incentive for
treatments to
reduce wildfire risk or restore forest stands. Modeling the
supply of
this material with spatially-explicit potential demand
locations
allows for a realistic analysis of the feasibility of such a
market to
stimulate rural development. We model multiple scenarios for
the
utilization of harvest residues within the current forest
products
market in western Oregon. Sensitivity analysis explored the
effects of
cost of the depots on feasibility, including policy designed
to
support depot establishment through subsidies. Scenarios were
also
used to assess the effects of increases in federal harvest
activities.
Results suggest that with relatively high biomass prices,
there is
some potential for investment in depots to aid rural
communities in
western Oregon, but there is little change in either the
ove</font>rall feasibility or the location of depot
establishment
under scenarios of increased federal harvest.<br>
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<font face="Verdana">"The people heard it,
and approved the doctrine, and
immediately practiced the
contrary."</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="-1">Benjamin
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