The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) and its partners at the National Association of State Foresters, today released the third edition in the new “Issues in the Forest” series – “BIOCHAR: Turning Wood to Gold.” “The information age is yielding an overload for many professionals and others interested in staying abreast of the facts of issues important to forests, forestry, and the forest-products sector,” said Endowment President Carlton Owen. “We’ve designed theIssues in the Forest series to help break through the clutter and allow a high-level overview of a single topic while trying to navigate the course of providing facts without advocating specific positions or outcomes.” The third issue in the series looks at biochar a byproduct of certain wood-to-energy processes and a potential value-added output that is touted as a soil amendment; carbon stabilizer; moisture retention agent, and much more.
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) and its partners at the National Association of State Foresters, today released the third edition in the new “Issues in the Forest” series – “BIOCHAR: Turning Wood to Gold.”
“The information age is yielding an overload for many professionals and others interested in staying abreast of the facts of issues important to forests, forestry, and the forest-products sector,” said Endowment President Carlton Owen. “We’ve designed theIssues in the Forest series to help break through the clutter and allow a high-level overview of a single topic while trying to navigate the course of providing facts without advocating specific positions or outcomes.”
The third issue in the series looks at biochar a byproduct of certain wood-to-energy processes and a potential value-added output that is touted as a soil amendment; carbon stabilizer; moisture retention agent, and much more.