01 May 2013 – WSU News
Karl Englund’s research would be easier if all homes were built of Legos. “If we designed for disassembly like that, you could just build your house, take it apart when you’re done with it and then sell all the parts,” said Englund, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Washington State University.
15 April 2013 – USDA
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA is extending for five years its agreement to work with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other partners to help develop a viable biofuel for the aviation industry. The Secretary signed the agreement with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood at the Advanced Biofuels Summit at Gaylord National Harbor in Maryland.
20 March 2013 – Lake County Leader
Woody debris and logging waste from Flathead Indian Reservation forests could end up powering jets as aviation biofuel. A new study, headed up by Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance and in which the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are taking part, takes an integrated look at what it would take for biomass from the western Montana corridor to be turned into aviation biofuel.
13 February 2013 – Flathead Beacon
The small town of Pablo near the base of the Mission Mountains has long been considered a harbinger of land stewardship. As the governmental seat of the Flathead Indian Reservation, the tribal community has harnessed its vast natural resources for a long-standing timber industry while preserving its sacred landscape through environmental policy, including the first-ever tribal wilderness designation along the western front of its iconic mountain range in 1982.
1 February 2013 – The Western News
Lincoln County commissioners on Wednesday heard from college engineering students who are participating in a bio-mass study project that could make jet fuel from timber and its byproducts.
December 2012 – Idaho Farm Bureau Producer – PDF
From Wood to Wing: Biofuels and the NARA Opportunity
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.