November 2012 – Washington State Magazine
If the world of cutting-edge research has a glamorous side, it was lost on Laurel Graves this summer as she found herself digging trenches for soil probes on the Cook Agronomy Farm north of Pullman. In the high summer heat, Graves dug for two hours. Palouse soil covered her arms.
November 2012 – Washington State Magazine
Few materials have been as kind to civilization as wood.
It made possible some of our most revolutionary technologies: the spear, fire, the wheel, the house, the ship. Hunting, cooking, shelter, transportation, all got big assists because wood was abundant, changeable, sturdy, and packed with energy.
22 October 2012 – Forest Business Network
In a significant push toward researching practical adoption of biofuel in previously untapped markets, three University of Idaho professors are partnering with the University of Washington and Washington State University in two parallel, five-year $40 million grants to develop jet fuel based on isobutanol.
10 October 2012 – Northwest Woodlands Magazine – PDF
In 2010, Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest (SAFN), a Pacific Northwest stakeholders group, was formed to explore the development of a safe, sustainable, and economically viable aviation biofuels industry in the Pacific Northwest. Forest residuals were one of four promising feedstocks identified for this purpose.
10 October 2012 – Northwest Woodlands Magazine – PDF
Montana is a little different than the rest of the United States when it comes to forests and forestry. Although we are often included as part of the Northwest, only a quarter of our forests are part of the Columbia River basin and we lack a shipping port to the west coast. For us, the Rocky Mountains sometimes impose the same barrier that Lewis and Clark encountered 200 years ago, …more
September 2012 – Missoula Works
Re-energize Montana’s wood products industry while “greening” America’s airline industry…
15 September 2012 – MediaPlanet – PDF
The U.S. Airforce uses 2.5 billion gallons of aviation fuel a year, a startling number when you consider the amount of greenhouse gases released as a result. So it’s no surprise that researchers at Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance are look at ways to incorporate biomass as a fuel. Forwardthinkers like Ralph Cavalieri – Project Director for NARA and Associate Vice President for Alternative Energy and Professor of Biological Systems Engineering at Washington …more
14 September 2012 – Missoulian
A hotel ballroom full of engineers, chemists and economists hope they can cobble together a new industry for Montana’s remaining loggers.
13 September 2012 – The Energy Collective
Out of the dozens of press releases that hit my email inbox in the last week, one that caught my eye was for a gathering of a group called the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) in Missoula, Montana this Thursday.
11 September 2012 – Capital Press
Northwest researchers say they are making progress in their efforts to develop ways to make jet fuel from wood slash.