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  • About
    • About BANR
    • Background Information
      • The Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic
      • Making Fuels and Electricity from Wood
      • The Importance of Carbon-Negative Bioenergy
      • Managing Beetle-Kill and Fuels in Western Forests
      • What is Biochar?
    • Research Questions
      • Does the Public Support Beetle-Kill Bioenergy
      • Is Beetle-Kill Biofuel Good for the Climate?
      • How Does Salvage Harvest Change the Forest Landscape?
      • How Much Beetle-Kill is There, and Where?
      • How Might Bioenergy Affect How Beetle-Kill is Managed
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How might bioenergy affect how beetle kill is managed?

Burning slash piles resulting from the felling of beetle-killed pine in Rocky Mountain National Park
Burning slash piles resulting from the felling of beetle-killed pine in Rocky Mountain National Park

A limited number of beetle-killed stands are currently being harvested for timber production, to protect roads, trails, campsites, and homes from falling trees, to reduce fuel loading and guard against catastrophic wildfire, or to promote controlled forest regeneration. Much of the biomass from such activities is simply piled and burned, which adds costs, risk, and air pollution burdens to stand treatment. The deployment of wood bioenergy technologies could add value to this biomass, potentially enabling the management of wider areas and leading to modified harvest practices (for example, whole-tree harvest instead of lop-and-scatter).

BANR Research Teams Addressing this Question:

  • The Harvest Logistics team (Task 2.1) is determining the most practical and cost-effective methods of producing dead woody feedstock from beetle-killed forest stands and transporting it to conversion facilities
  • The Feedstock Preprocessing team (Task 2.2) is developing biomass quality and processing specifications for compatibility with the conversion technologies of our BANR industrial partners
  • The Financial Analysis team (Task 3.5) is studying the costs of harvest and conversion to determine the conditions under which a beetle-kill to liquid fuel system would be economically viable
  • The Decision Support System team (Task 3.7) is integrating BANR research results into a spatially-explicit web-based format easily accessible to forest landowners, bioenergy practitioners, researchers, and policymakers

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  • About
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    • About BANR
    • Background Information
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      • The Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic
      • Making Fuels and Electricity from Wood
      • The Importance of Carbon-Negative Bioenergy
      • Managing Beetle-Kill and Fuels in Western Forests
      • What is Biochar?
    • Research Questions
      ▼
      • Does the Public Support Beetle-Kill Bioenergy
      • Is Beetle-Kill Biofuel Good for the Climate?
      • How Does Salvage Harvest Change the Forest Landscape?
      • How Much Beetle-Kill is There, and Where?
      • How Might Bioenergy Affect How Beetle-Kill is Managed
    • Collaborators
      ▼
      • BANR Team
      • Advisory Board
      • NASA DEVELOP
    • BANR Funding
  • Projects
    ▼
    • Feedstock Supply
    • Feedstock Logistics & Processing
    • System Performance & Sustainability
    • Education
    • Extension & Outreach
    • Health & Safety
  • News & Events
    ▼
    • BANR News
    • Events
    • BANR in the Media
  • Extension & Resources
    ▼
    • Publications
    • Webinars & Videos
    • Maps & Spatial Data
    • Infosheets
    • Ask an Expert
    • Beetle Kill & Bioenergy Resources
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    • About Us
    • K-12 Resources
    • Undergraduate and Graduation Education
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  • Biochar & Bioenergy 2019