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"For centuries, natural fires and indigenous practices helped protect our forests by removing excess trees and shrubs so they did not become overcrowded," reads a post on the Northstar Community Service District's website.
Now, "we now know that responsible forest management and protecting our communities from wildfire requires intentional fuel reduction efforts with the thinning of excess trees and removal of shrubs and underbrush."
That's why the district is opening a wood energy facility in Northstar Village in Lake Tahoe, Calif., that will burn wood chips to heat water and provide heat to buildings there, reports the Sacramento Bee.
It's estimated that the North Tahoe-Truckee region needs to dispose of upwards of 100,000 bone-dry-tons (about 2,000 pounds of wood) per year.
"Small trees can be used for lumber used in construction, but smaller trees, shrubs, and branches have a lower market value and are expensive to transport," reads the district's post.
"The most sustainable, catalytic, solution for sustainable woody biomass disposal is local biomass utilization facilities."
The Northstar facility will burn wood chips that have been dried by drought and the bark beetle infestation, and it's expected to result in a net reduction of carbon dioxide of more than 75,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide during its lifetime
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