Pinchot Institute President V. Alaric Sample testified before the House Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.

Plans for woody biomass facilities and other innovative energy projects in Vernonia are moving forward with the help of a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The USDA awarded the city $25,000 from its Forest Service Woody Biomass Utilization grant, part of a $3 million package of funding doled out to renewable energy projects nationwide.

Pinchot Institute Senior Fellow Catherine Mater has worked closely on the project, the first of its kind planned in the nation.

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In collaboration with the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, forest scientists from Oregon State University are testing a new ground-based light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technology on the city of Vernonia's municipal forest lands.