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.
21 August 2012 – Renewable Energy World
Aviation remains as much a part of Washington State as its eastern dry-land agriculture or the rain-soaked forests on its mountainous western fringes. But only the alternative energy industry proposes to combine the three in a regional effort to create a green and renewable jet fuel (biojet).
1 August 2012 – Pallet Enterprise
Many believe that the wood energy market is just getting started. But what sectors are the most promising? And what factors could affect future demand?
16 June 2012 – Missoulian
The future of Pacific Northwest forests may lie in the stuff loggers now leave behind.
03 March 2012 – Teru Talk
The Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) has opportunities for Native American graduate students in the fields of environmental science, forestry, biology, and engineering to work with the Columbia River Basin tribes on project teams for nine months beginning in Fall 2012.