Company interested in shipping local biomass to South Korea

ST. JOHNS — Apache County Natural Resources liaison Bruce Greco is working on an idea to help local companies sell biomass to J.A. International, a South Korean company that purchases biomass from all over [...]

2019-10-01T20:30:32+00:00October 1st, 2019|Chip and Ship, Forest Operations and Biomass, News|

Study: Forest Restoration Saves Carbon In Long Run

A new study by The Nature Conservancy shows forest thinning and prescribed burns cause a short-term loss of carbon to the atmosphere, but save carbon in the long run. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports, that’s [...]

2019-09-26T17:01:26+00:00September 26th, 2019|Chip and Ship, Forest Operations and Biomass, News|

Chip-And-Ship Forest Clearing May Help Prevent Wildfire Disasters

A huge mechanical claw scoops up several ponderosa pine logs and feeds them into an industrial chipper. Thousands of wood chunks are then blasted into a large shipping container. "It goes anywhere from one [...]

2019-09-23T17:36:56+00:00September 9th, 2019|Chip and Ship, Forest Operations and Biomass, News|

‘Chip and Ship’ Project Aims to Speed up Forest Restoration in Northern Arizona

Large-scale forest restoration in northern Arizona is behind schedule. One of the major hurdles is that there are very few places for low-value logs and slash to go once it’s cut. It’s known as [...]

2019-09-23T17:39:23+00:00August 26th, 2019|Chip and Ship, Forest Operations and Biomass, News|

Research partnership between NAU, Salt River Project provides solutions to Arizona’s problems

What effect do zero-net homes have on the energy grid? What’s the dollar value of a healthy ecosystem, and what does that look like in the ever-changing Southwest? What are the best methods to [...]

2019-08-13T16:22:05+00:00August 13th, 2019|Forest Operations and Biomass, News|

NAU pilot project tests exporting wood products via railway to speed forest restoration

A pilot project at Camp Navajo has the potential to unlock a critical bottleneck in forest restoration and wildfire prevention efforts across northern Arizona by creating markets for restoration byproducts like wood chips from [...]

2019-09-23T17:41:36+00:00August 13th, 2019|Chip and Ship, Forest Operations and Biomass, News|

Museum Fire Burned in Recently Thinned Areas; Consumed Log Decks, Slash

The Museum Fire north of Flagstaff ignited in an area of forest recently thinned by the Flagstaff Watershed Protection Project, a voter-approved forest restoration initiative. Log decks and slash piles were still on the [...]

2019-08-06T17:53:56+00:00August 6th, 2019|Museum Fire, News|
Go to Top