Thompson Falls schools going with biomass

Thompson Falls Public Schools will be the third western Montana school district to climb on the national biomass bandwagon.

The school district recently decided to accept a $200,000 federal grant that will help pay for conversion of an older diesel-burning boiler to a biomass boiler.

The converted boiler will burn wood waste supplied in the form of wood chips from a local lumber mill plus forestry slash, thereby reducing the amount of wildfire-feeding fuel in area forests.
That’s one of the goals of the Forest Service’s Fuels for Schools grant the school district received.

By JOHN STROMNES of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2004/12/24/news/mtregional/news08.txt