Mission: Promote and
encourage the use of wood biomass as a renewable, natural resource to provide a
clean, readily available energy source suitable for heat and power in public
and private buildings.
To facilitate the removal of
hazardous fuels from our forests by assisting in the development of viable
commercial uses of removed material.
Initiated
by a partnership between the USDA Forest Service
State and Private Forestry and the
Bitterroot Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Area, Inc., there
are currently six state forestry departments participating in this program with
staff available to provide technical and financial assistance to interested
parties in Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota.
Click below to link
to each state’s Fuels for Schools and Beyond program
website.