Useful Links
Information on Woody Biomass
The Forest Bioenergy website is designed for information sharing among natural resource management and extension professionals as well as community planning and development professionals. It is one of several products resulting from the Southern Forest Research Partnership bioenergy training initiative. The site is a repository of information related to biomass product use designed such that members can easily upload and the public can easily download relevant biomass-related information. The gateway includes publications, presentations, additional links, events, and images. http://forestbioenergy.com/
In January 2007, the Pinchot Institute for Conservation held its Outlook Forum 2007 on Climate Change, Forests, and Bioenergy. A summary, presentations, and speaker bios can be found at: http://pinchot.org/outlook_forums/2007.
In September 2007, the Pinchot Institute for Conservation held Wood-Based Bioenergy: A National Dialogue. A session summary, presentations, speaker bios, and a participant list can be accessed at: http://pinchot.org/current_projects/national_dialogue.
Smallwood Utilization Network (SUN) offers a broad network to deal with the complex set of challenges in supply, production, and marketing for the emerging smallwood industry. At this website, you can sign up for the Smallwood Newsletter, which includes lots of up-to-date articles on woody biomass utilization. http://smallwoodnews.com/.
The Timber/buy/sell website provides news, events, markets and supply, and information on innovative equipment. Here you can browse ads from people wanting to buy and sell forest residue, logs, mill byproducts, and standing timber. http://www.timberbuysell.com/.
The Hidden Treasure is an educational comic book from the National Association of Conservation Districts. This teaching tool for late elementary to middle school children illustrates how forest renewal improves the health of forests and provides biomass for many productive uses. It also describes how woody biomass will play an important role in our nation's future, including energy security through the production of biofuels, biochemicals, and other sources of energy. You can learn more and request a copy at: http://forestry.nacdnet.org/comic.htm.
Phyllis is a database, containing information on the composition of a variety of fuels including grasses, sugarcane bagasse, husks, algae, fossil fuels, and manure. It enables users to make analysis data of individual biomass or waste materials available and to obtain the average composition of any combination of groups and/or subgroups of biomass fuels. Phyllis is maintained by the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands. It currently contains about 2,300 records of data and will be updated and extended regularly. You can access Phyllis at: http://www.ecn.nl/phyllis/.
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