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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 30 > Wood-to-oil may help pay for forest thinning

Wood-to-oil may help pay for forest thinning

By Jeff Barnard / The Bulletin
August 30, 2009

MERLIN " For the past decade that the Forest Service has been pressing to thin hundreds of millions of acres of woods in danger of burning up, it has had one nagging problem: how to come up with the billions of dollars to pay for it.

Young trees are too small for lumber. Transporting the....

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