The Colorado Wood Utilization and Marketing Program at Colorado State University: CO-Wood in the News

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In 1998, 144,000 wooden utility poles were used for new construction or replacement in Colorado. These poles helped support 7,200 miles of line or enough line to wrap around the circumference of the moon. Very few of these poles came from Colorado forests.

Source: Lynch, D. L. and K. Mackes. 2001. Wood use in Colorado at the turn of the twenty-first century. Research Paper RMRS-RP-32. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 23 p.

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The Colorado Wood Utilization and Marketing Program (CO-Wood)

CO-Wood in the News

Can Forests Meet Our Energy Needs? The Future of Forest Biomass in Colorado

March 2008

04 Mar: Warner College of Natural Resources: "Report on the January 2008 woody biomass short course"

February 2008

28 Feb: Canon City Daily Record: "Stricken trees provide energy opportunity"

28 Feb: CTV News: "Forests turning brown"

27 Feb: Fort Collins Now: "The silver lining of the red forest"

22 Feb: CSU Rocky Mountain Collegian: "Groups seeks to reduce fire danger in wake of pine beetle destruction"

22 Feb: Loveland Reporter Herald: "Senators will help fight bark beetles"

22 Feb: Loveland Reporter Herald: "Dead wood to fuel cars?"

21 Feb: Loveland Reporter Herald: "Senators pledge support for forest research"

21 Feb: Fort Collins Coloradoan: "Wood gets look as answer to energy independence"

20 Feb: Greeley Tribune: "Allard to keynote forestry conference"

19 Feb: 9News: "A possible bright side to the pine beetle infestation"

18 Feb: Loveland Reporter Herald: "CSU plans biomass talk"

14 Feb: Biomass Magazine: "Woody biomass short-course focuses on future"

December 2007

27 Dec: Rocky Mountain News: "Is a campfire a 'biomass energy technology'?"