Southern Urban and Interface Forests - What's New

The USDA Forest Service and the University of Florida unveiled a new book this week that gives utility and energy companies, planners, investors and others the latest information on the viability of the wood to energy market in wildland-urban interface areas of the South. The free book, titled “Wood to Energy: Using Southern Interface Fuels for Bioenergy,” is posted online at: http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/pubs/gtr/gtr_srs132.pdf.

“Wood to Energy: Using Southern Interface Fuels for Bioenergy” addresses topics including woody biomass sources in the wildland-urban interface; harvesting, reprocessing and delivery of woody biomass in the WUI; biomass conversion to energy and fuels; the economic availability of woody biomass; economic impact analysis of woody biomass energy development; and public perceptions of using wood for fuel.