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Nevada Biomass Workshop Reno, NV June 27-28, 2006 Bill Carlson Western Governors Association Biomass Task Force Carlson Small Power Consultants
Clean and Diversified Energy Advisory Committee (CDEAC) Formed to Provide Recommendations to Attain these Goals
Mill Residues Forest Residues Agricultural Residues Urban Wood Residues Total
Butte Creek Fuels Reduction Treatment Results Treatment opportunities on WUI and non-WUI timberland: 23 MM acres
Final Screens:
1. Plots with higher fire hazard (CI < 25 mph or CI < 40 + TI < 25) 2. Inventoried roadless areas excluded 3. Counties with wetter climates excluded
Markets
Largely responsibility of private infrastructure developers Scope and scale should be appropriate to the resource restoration need Big developed markets are commodity forest products, transportation fuels, electricity Every piece of biomass should go to highest and best use for best economics Grants are great, but create neither markets nor infrastructure, and are no substitute for economic strategy
2. Use stewardship contracting authority in order to establish proper relationship with contractors and allow agency to focus on final results on the land. These are not timber sales!
7. Insure that your agency has done all it can to create the best economic climate for bidders that will result in lowest cost per acre for service
Help with federal energy bill extension Help with state energy incentives
If You Are Successful Lands will be restored to within range of natural variability Potential for catastrophic wildfire will be reduced Rural economies and tax coffers will be strengthened Air pollution will be reduced Greenhouse gas generation will be reduced Water will be returned to streams/springs Balance of payments improved as products, energy produced domestically Fossil fuel use reduced Landfill life will be extended
Strike your blow for world peace, use biomass!!