National Forest Restoration Working Partnership Grant

1. National Forest Restoration Working Partnership Grant Multi-collaborative effort to explore the use of woody biomass for cellulosic ethanol development in western Oregon

2. Tonight’s Agenda • Introductions • Grant partners and activities • Biomass examples • Biomass around the state • Future technology • Discussion

3. Grant Partners • Lane County - Mike McKenzie-Bahr • Lane MicroBusiness - Martin Desmond • Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment - Marcus Kauffman • Northwest Cooperative Development Center - Eric Bowman • Oregon Environmental Council - Chris Hagerbaumer • Small Business Development Center • William H. Klausmeier, Ph.D - Lane Community College • Trillium FiberFuels, Inc. - Chris Beatty • Mater Engineering, Ltd. – Catherine M. Mater • Novus Group - Larry Brice

4. Grant Activities • Woody biomass resource assessment to determine feedstock availability, price, and location, and transportation challenges; • Education and outreach to increase public understanding; • Assessing forest biomass processing capacity; and • Strengthening forest biomass business capacity through training and skill development.

5. Definition • Biomass – any solid, non-hazardous, cellulosic material derived from: • Forest-related resources • Solid wood wastes (construction waste) • Agricultural residues • Dedicated feedstock crops e.g. switchgrass and hybrid poplar Source: US Dept. of Energy

6. Oregon is the “Middle East” of forest biomass • Oregon has more softwood volume than any other state in the nation. • 27.5 million acres of forestlands

7. Why Biomass Utilization? • Implement fuel reduction on a landscape scale (One quarter of the state of Oregon is at moderate to high risk of wildfire danger because of excess amounts of forest and range biomass). • Promote energy independence ($300m to $500,000,000 leaves state each year) • Foster low-carbon economy • Promote rural economic development • Reduces material to waste stream • Reduces burning of slash piles

8. Problem Summary • All Ownerships • 10.4 million acres of Condition Class 3 • 15.3 million acres of Condition Class 2 • Public Lands • 15.5 million acres on public lands • 84 % outside Wilderness and Roadless Area

9. Treatment Gap • At a minimum we need to be treating 3-5 times current efforts • To be efficient and effective we need strategic assessment and planning at the statewide and local to mid-scale • The gap represents both added opportunity and added responsibility

10. Woody Biomass Utilization • A wide variety of products (some still in R&D) • Firewood, post, and poles • Pellets and fuel logs • Lumber products, composite panels, pulp • Soil amendments • Landscape/landfill cover • Bio-based plastics, solvents, etc. • Biomass power and heat • Biofuels (ethanol, renewable diesel)

12. Potential ethanol production

13. Issues to Consider • Scale and type of utilization strategy • Community Support • Biomass Supply • Project Economics • Appropriate Technology • Siting/Infrastructure