Slash removal and microbial communities
charles.dillon2![Monitoring equipment at the NARA long-term soil productivity site.](https://nararenewables.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Residual-monitoring-1024x768.jpg)
A key issue attached to the use of post-harvest forest residuals (slash) to make biojet fuel and other chemical products is how slash removal impacts the productivity and ecology of a working forest. The USDA-NIFA, through the NARA project, funds research to evaluate the impacts of …more