“The Forest Service’s Wood Innovations Program—which provides competitive grants to foster innovation in the wood products sector and supports markets for wood products and wood energy across the country—was able to step up to help Jackson Paper Manufacturing cover the cost of keeping their biomass boiler system running. Thanks in part to that support, the mill was able to secure American jobs and strengthen the local wood products economy. The wood fuel that supports the biomass boiler and the wood that supports the papermill are harvested from the forest as part of commercial thinning, a process that allows loggers to remove specific trees to both improve forest health and use the harvested wood to manufacture valuable products.”

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