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Biomass Magazine
Like any combustible fuel, large-scale storage of wood pellets can be a dangerous proposition. Matters of dust, moisture, temperatures, deflagrations, density, structural integrity, location and public safety must all be thoroughly considered well before a single stake goes into the ground. Structural design, dust management and fire safety features are making domes a popular choice for large-scale wood pellet storage.
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FPS
In Atlanta next month, the International Conference on Wood Adhesives — the premier technical conference on advances in adhesion of wood and biomass — convenes for three days of sessions, workshops, exhibits, and networking. One of the highlights of the plenary program is Dave Fell, Research Leader for Business Intelligence, FPInnovations, who will address the "Perspectives on the Future of Engineered Wood Markets."
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FPS
It's not too late to register for the 20th International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium,
which will be held in Madison, Wisconsin, Sept. 12-15. This symposium will be hosted by the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) and is cosponsored by the Forest Products Society (FPS) and the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO). This symposium is a forum for those involved in nondestructive testing and evaluation of wood, wood-based products, and structures. Registration is open until Tuesday, Sept. 12.
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Dovetail Partners, Inc.
There are increasing references in popular and scientific literature to an emerging "bioeconomy." But what is meant by this term, and what does it imply for the near and longer term future? Part of the answer is revealed by the past.
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U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) recently criticized the Commerce Department’s announcement of a two-month delay in levying final tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber that is subsidized and dumped in the United States.
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Iowa State University via ScienceDaily
With crude oil selling for less than $50 a barrel, there's little economic incentive to develop biorenewable chemicals as only drop-in replacements for petrochemicals. That's a reality that has leaders of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC) based at Iowa State University proposing a new model for creating, applying and commercializing chemicals made from corn stalks, wood chips and other sources of biomass.
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Portland Press Herald
Making lumber is a bit like peeling a banana. The peels, in this case 16-foot lengths of bark-clad hemlock, are stacked beside a small sawmill here at Maine's Treeline Inc., a diversified forestry operation on the access road to Lincoln. But that waste wood has value. Last fall, Treeline could turn the slabs into chips and truck them an easy 17 miles along the Penobscot River to feed a biomass power plant in West Enfield. Maine lawmakers had recently approved a $13.4 million taxpayer subsidy that allowed a new owner to restart the unprofitable facility.
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The New York Times
When a species becomes isolated in a small disconnected patch of habitat, unable to breed with larger populations elsewhere, it runs a much higher risk of going extinct locally. And since many of the world's forests are increasingly fragmented, carved up by roads and farms, it seems inevitable that many species within those remaining patches will soon vanish forever.
But in recent years, some ecologists have asked whether they can help stave off an extinction crisis by, in effect, running an experiment by an ecologist named Thomas Lovejoy in reverse. The idea is to link together the world's remaining forest islands by planting small corridors of trees between them, allowing native birds, mammals and plants to spread between the fragments, mingle with their brethren and become more resilient against extinction threats.
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The Guardian
The Bureau of Labor Statistics issues an annual census of the deadliest jobs. In 2016, truck drivers had the most fatal workplace injuries (885), and loggers had 67. But loggers are a far smaller workforce. Construction is booming — and yet loggers are facing a labor shortage. Can new technology attract young people to a life in the forest?
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Treehugger
Many of us city mice cherish our urban trees as if they were sacred beings. From behind windows they offer glimpses of life amid the manmade landscape and provide spots for city birds to nest and sing. We drink in their mind-body-soul benefits when walking in parks; we seek their shade in the summer heat. They offer a dose of nature for the nature-deprived, and for that, they are priceless.
It would be hard to place a value on the soul-soothing pleasure-giving worth of trees, but city trees do a whole lot more than just spark happiness. And now a study published in the online journal Ecological Modelling has come up with a dollar amount — $505,000,000 per year.
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Biomass Magazine
Japan recently filed a report with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's Global Agricultural Information Network, noting the country imported a record 347,000 metric tons of wood pellets last year for thermal power generation. Pellet imports expected to increase in the coming years. According to the report, the number of small- and mid-scale biomass power plants using wood materials, including pellets, is increasing under Japan's feed-in tariff (FIT) system.
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Louisiana Forest Products Development Center
A fully funded graduate research assistantship is available for a Master of Science (MS) student in the Louisiana Forest Products Development Center, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University (LSU) to start spring 2018. The successful candidate will be involved in a cutting-edge project in the field of forest products marketing/business development with a focus on evaluation of market potential for Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) and Massive Plywood Panels (MPP) in the Southern United States using Southern Yellow Pine.
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