Wood Innovations Program Grants

Sustainably sourcing wood to make products helps to make our forests healthier and our communities more prosperous. The Forest Service invests in local wood economies through its grant programs. These grants support innovation, expand wood energy markets, and promote wood as a sustainable building material.
Wood Innovations Grants – FY 2024 Funded Proposals
The Wood Innovations Grant Program is investing in proposals that expand traditional wood utilization projects, promote using wood as a construction material in commercial, institutional and multifamily buildings, and expand wood energy markets. Healthy forests depend on a healthy forest products economy, and these investments support local economies while directly contributing to improving forest health and lowering wildfire risks to communities.
Funded Proposals by State
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Alaska Division of Forestry: Developing a Local Use Lumber Program in Alaska | $150,000 |
City of Houston Alaska: Production of Firewood for Community Distribution | $70,000 |
City of Nenana: City of Nenana Biomass District Heating Project | $172,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Brian Peck: Utilizing Wood Resources and Creating New Products in American Samoa | $43,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Bluestone Renewables Holding, LLC: Planning for Hydrogen to Methanol Project | $300,000 |
California Hotwood: New Firewood Packaging Facility in Dewey, AZ | $150,000 |
Kaibab Millworks LLC: Kaibab Mill Improvement Project | $145,000 |
Lignetics: Packaging Line and Control Systems Upgrades | $300,000 |
Novo Star Wood Products, LLC: Novo Star Wood Products Sawmill Expansion | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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University of Arkansas: A mass timber awareness and opportunities campaign supporting rural healthcare | $65,192 |
University of Arkansas: Arkansas Wood Innovations Cooperative to Advance Wood Products | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Bay Area Council Foundation: Accelerating Mass Timber Utilization in Housing Construction | $300,000 |
Blue Forest Finance: Forest Resilience Bond: Supporting ecological restoration and innovation at scale in the Pacific Northwest | $299,983 |
G.C Forest Products: G.C. Forest Products Pellet Mill Expansion | $296,000 |
Green Diamond: Mass Timber Design of Green Diamond Resource Company's California Timberlands Office | $300,000 |
Growpro, Inc: Using forest management biomass for biochar production and greenhouse heating | $187,500 |
Kodama Systems: Developing Semi-Autonomous Skidder to Improve Productivity | $299,872 |
Plumas Wood Fiber, LLC: Engineering to Produce Horticultural Wood Fiber Substrate from Western Forest Biomass | $28,000 |
Rath Industries, Inc: Rath Industries, Inc. Sawmill Kiln Expansion Project | $258,480 |
Sierra Institute for Community and Environment: Greenville Crossing Mass Timber Workforce Housing Design | $200,000 |
Sierra Valley Cogen, LLC: Sierra Valley Cogen Restart Planning | $150,000 |
South Tahoe Refuse Co: Advancing Community Supported Wood Energy in the Tahoe Basin - CHP Permitting and Engineering for South Tahoe Refuse | $287,711 |
Sugar Bowl Corporation: Biomass Combined Heat and Power for Energy Resilience and Fire Mitigation at Sugar Bowl Resort | $150,945 |
SupplyBank.org: Design and Engineering for Mass Timber Oakport Nonprofit Campus | $286,296 |
Trinity River Timber Company: California Sawmill Mass Timber Production R&D | $298,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Colorado School of Mines: Expanding the Ponderosa Pine Mass Timber Market for Residential and Commercial Construction with Field Benefits Demonstration | $299,193 |
Eagle Wood Cutting and Processing: EagleWood Biomass Production Program | $81,290 |
EcoTech Biofuels, LLC: Project Planning for Rio Grande Biofuels | $300,000 |
KFB Forestry, LLC: Wood Utilization from Forest Mitigation Projects | $58,470 |
Lignum Support, LLC: Front Range Forest Products Sawmill Startup | $300,000 |
Redstones Timber Frames, Inc: ModVern Cabins: Standing Dead, Engelmann Spruce, Stackable Log Packages for Affordable Housing | $280,500 |
Routt Millworks, LLC: Sawmill Improvement Phase 2 - New Hurdle Machine Works Heavy Duty System | $175,000 |
Timber Age Systems, Inc: Ponderosa Pine Mass Timber Blueprints Enabling Local, High-Performance, Affordable, Attainable and Sustainable Off-Site Housing | $190,494 |
Yosemite Clean Energy, LLC: Feedstock Analysis and Pre-Engineering to support development of a wood waste to biofuel gasification plant in the San Luis Valley, Colorado | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Hull Forest Products, Inc: Supporting Forest Management by Expanding Local Wood Products Manufacturing Capacity & Market Access | $176,764 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College: Timber Resource Education Experience (TREE): Designing with Mass Timber to Increase Use of Georgia-grown Southern Yellow Pine | $300,000 |
Choice OpCp, LLC, dba Pioneer Processors: Energy-Efficient Firewood Expansion | $300,000 |
Claude Howard Lumber Company: Sawmill Optimization Upgrade | $250,000 |
Equilibrium Consulting USA, Inc: Advancement of Mass Timber Braced Frames for Codified Design | $300,000 |
Macon-Bibb County: Macon: Celebrating Heritage of Place with a Mass Timber Airport Terminal | $300,000 |
Mar-Jac Poultry, Inc: Mill Expansion to Support the Management and Sustainability of Forest Resources | $300,000 |
Nature Coatings, Inc: Expanding new bio-based pigments and dispersion technology made from biochar, a high growth market opportunity | $300,000 |
Roseburg Forest Products: Improving the properties of laminated veneer lumber (LVL) made from southern yellow pine through microwave treatment | $191,809 |
Southern Legacy Wood Products: Phase Two Southern Legacy Wood Products Energy Efficiency Renovation and Expansion | $300,000 |
Three Forks Timber Processors: Sawmill dry kiln addition to grow rural economies and spur forest restoration in southern Appalachia | $239,193 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Pacific Current, LLC: Mahipapa Bio-mass System Upgrades | $300,000 |
Simonpietri Enterprises, LLC: Innovative Soil Restoration Products for Hawaii Made from Wildfire-Fuel Invasive Species | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Boise Cascade: Large Format Glulam Sander for Mass Timber GLT Panels | $300,000 |
ID Forest Products Commission: IFPC Design with Wood-Architecture and Engineering Competitions | $100,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Purdue University: Indiana Wood Utilization Team (IWUT) | $294,036 |
Robinson Lumber Company: Green Production Improvement Project | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Kentucky Hardwood Lumber Co, Inc: Sawmill Carriage Improvement Upgrade for Greater Log Utilization in Central Appalachia. | $169,976 |
Somerset Pellet Fuel: Hardwood Fire Logs in Kentucky for Improved Wood Utilization | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Coushatta Forest Products, LLC: Sawmill Operating Equipment Control Systems Upgrades | $179,500 |
Louisiana Tech University: Monitoring and Assessing a New Designed Mass Timber Building at Louisiana Tech | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Godfrey Forest Arizona, LLC: Planning for OSB/OSL Mill in Jay, Maine | $300,000 |
Tanbark Molded Fiber Products: Expanding Capabilities to Replace Plastic Packaging with Type 3 Molded Wood Fiber | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Frostburg State University: Frostburg State University: Maximizing Opportunities for Wood Energy | $300,000 |
U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities: Wood Product MMRV Tool Adaptation and Platform Development | $300,000 |
University of Maryland: Developing Nail Laminated Mass Timber (NLT) Panel Systems for Use in Affordable Housing Construction | $200,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Core Investments, Inc: 495 Dot Ave Senior Housing Engineering and Design | $300,000 |
Meadow Farm, LLC: Sawmill Expansion Project at Meadow Farm of the Berkshires | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Michigan Technological University: Demonstration of Structural Lumber Grading Technologies for Undervalued Hardwoods - Red Maple | $200,000 |
Ottawa Forest Products, Inc: Increasing Efficiency and Production at Ottawa Forest Products, Amasa, MI | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Hill Wood Products, Inc: Hill Wood Products Wood Pellet Expansion Project | $300,000 |
Minnesota North College: Vermilion Campus Biomass System Restoration Project | $213,279 |
Molina Realtors: 624 East Lake Street Mixed Use Building Prototype Design | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Fred Netterville Lumber: Netterville Lumber Small Log Cross Tie Mill Expansion | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Kanduch Logging: Firewood Processing Facility Expansion | $229,973 |
Montana Technology Enterprise Center: Design and Engineering of Montana Innovation Corridor Gateway Mass Timber Showcase and Timber Technology | $300,000 |
Panhandle Forest Products: Big Sky Biomass Heat and Accelerated Drying Facility Boiler | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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City of Lincoln Nebraska: Lincoln Biochar Production Project | $249,525 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Tahoe Forest Products (in Partnership with the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California): Small and Large Log Lines Integration for Enhanced Wood Processing Efficiency | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Durgin and Crowell Lumber Co., Inc: Durgin and Crowell Wood Energy Combined Heat and Power System | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Gutchess Lumber Company: Combined Heat and Power Equipment Expansion | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Evergreen CLT, LLC.: Manufacturing of Cross Laminated Timber to Create Innovative Affordable Housing Solutions within Mass Timber Construction | $300,000 |
Polk Sawmill: Expanding Forest Management and Hardwood Manufacturing in Western NC | $300,000 |
Swinerton Builders: Kasa Medical Collective Mass Timber Medical Office Building | $300,000 |
Verenovo Energy, Inc: Verenovo Biochar Production Facility: Adding New Value to an Old Supply Chain | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Ohio Wood Connection: Ohio Wood Connection Sustainable Feedstock Handling Capacity Expansion | $82,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Brocks Wood Lot, LLC: Brocks Wood Lot LLC Sawmill Expansion - Phase 1 | $50,699 |
Community Development Partners: Julia West' Mass Timber Building Engineering and Design | $300,000 |
Elk Creek Forest Products: Resaw Equipment Installation Project | $300,000 |
Go Lab, Inc: Planning to Support Increasing Wood Products Manufacturing Capacity in Southern Oregon | $300,000 |
Jennifer Bonner MALL, LLC: Blank House: A Model for Aspect Ratios in Seismic Zones | $125,000 |
Oregon State University: Bringing Point-Supported Mass Timber Structures to Commercial Viability in the USA | $299,164 |
Timberlab, Inc: Design for Mass Timber Manufacturing | $330,000 |
Williams & Russell CDC: Design for Black Business Hub Mass Timber Building | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Brownlee Lumber, Inc: Enhancing Fiber Recovery through Advanced Debarking Technology | $300,000 |
Clear Lake Lumber, Inc: Railroad Ties As An Alternative To Promote Sustainable Forest Management | $122,868 |
Collins Pine: New Dry Kilns Installation | $300,000 |
Cummings Lumber Company: Improved Technology Rip Saw System | $270,215 |
Villanova University: Evaluation of cross laminated timber flooring systems with and without composite concrete topping | $299,741 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Roger Williams University: Mitigating the Environmental Effects on Mass Timber Construction in Coastal Climates | $33,500 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Clemson University: Development and Promotion of the Market for Timber in Industrial Facilities | $300,000 |
U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities: Developing an Equitable Southern Mass Timber Value Chain | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Clark Lumber Company, Inc: Thermally Modified Lumber Equipment Expansion | $300,000 |
Panther Creek Forestry: Firewood Processor and Post Mill Utilizing By-products from Forest Stand Improvement | $272,774 |
Unaka Forest Products, Inc: Expanding sawmill capacity at 4 sites across southern Appalachia | $300,000 |
Winell Lee Lumber Company: Upgrade and Install Thermally-Modified Wood Production | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Texas Urban Sawmill: Full Circle Woodland Forestry a Circular Economic Project | $200,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Cersosimo Lumber Company, Inc: Lumber Grade Optimization | $300,000 |
Greater Rockingham Area Services, Inc: Greater Rockingham Area Services Biomass Boiler Project | $230,359 |
Ryegate Associates: Ryegate Associates: Waste Heat to Useable Thermal Energy | $1,000,000 |
Vermont Forests, Parks, and Recreation: Vermont Working Lands Advanced Wood Heating Initiative | $297,758 |
Vermont Renewable Gas, LLC: Renewable Natural Gas Plant Installation, Testing and Training | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Clark/Barnes, PLLC: Ballard Hotel - Design Manual for Mass Timber in the Hospitality Market Sector | $300,000 |
LSW Architects: Growing Forests Growing Kids - Outreach for Mass Timber in Schools | $80,000 |
Mercer Spokane: WA6:go-to-market product certification of a six-story mass timber system for a legislatively mandated single-stair housing building code in Washington | $300,000 |
Mt. Baker Housing Association: Overcoming Funding and Market Barriers to Utilizing Mass Timber in High Rise | $300,000 |
Pacific Northwest Renewable Energy, LLC: Planning for Pacific Northwest Renewable Energy/Port of Grays Harbor Pellet Plant | $300,000 |
Pacific Rim Tonewoods: Transforming Soundboards - Improved Efficiency, Sonic Grading, Product Expansion | $298,326 |
StructureCraft: Determination of seismic performance factors for mass timber brace frames based on FEMA P695 methodology | $150,000 |
Vaagan Brothers Lumber: Colville Sawmill X-Ray Log Scanning Installation Project | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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West Virginia University: Optimization of the Bonding Technologies for Appalachian Hardwoods | $223,074 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Krueger Lumber Co: Stationary Sash Gang Reciprocating Saw Installation | $187,500 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Auburn University: Auburn Timber Collaborative | $299,494 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Tok Wood Fuels LLC Fuel Log Production in Rural Alaska | $300,000 |
Alaska Timber & Truss Alaska Timber & Truss One-Pass Mill (Log Ripper 200XP) | $298,081 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Dakota Logging: Yavapai Firewood Processing Facility | $201,000 |
Restoration Forest Products: Windfall Sawmill Expansion | $300,000 |
Novo Star Wood Products, LLC: Novo Star Wood Products LLC Expansion Project 2 | $300,000 |
Kaibab Millworks: The Kaibab Mill Local Resource Restoration Project | $224,067 |
Joe Dirt Excavating, Inc: Sawmill Upgrades and Expansions | $215,000 |
Perkins Natural Resources: Perkins Natural Resources LLC Expansion for Higher Production Project | $225,200 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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University of Arkansas: SIPs-Based Pocket Neighborhood for a Rural Timberland Community | $213,167 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Mono County: The Missing Link: Solving Biomass Utilization Needs in the Eastern Sierra | $299,889 |
Karagozian & Case, Inc: Development of Progressive Collapse Guidance for Mass Timber Systems | $67,470 |
Hat Creek Lumber: Hat Creek Lumber | $300,000 |
West Biofuels, LLC: Mariposa Forest Biomass to Renewable Bioenergy and Biochar | $300,000 |
Arbor Energy and Resources Corporation: Gasification demonstration to support the development of a biomass gasification plant in Placer County, CA | $300,000 |
Auberry Sawmill, Inc: Auberry Sawmill Improvement 2023A | $225,000 |
Franklin Logging, Inc: Replace and Upgrade Planer lnfeed System, Shasta Green Sawmill, Burney, CA | $300,000 |
Blue Forest Finance" Technical Assistance for Wood Utilization Entrepreneurs | $125,000 |
Angel City Lumber: Angeles National Forest x Angel City Lumber VG Flooring Project | $81,000 |
Indian Valley Community Service District: Advancing Wood Energy Microgrids for IVCSD and the Community of Greenville | $90,055 |
Mote, Inc: Mote Scaramento Carbon Negative Hydrogen Project 1 | $175,000.00 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Mountain Pine Manufacturing: Wood Strand Waste-Wood System Grant | $160,000 |
Rocky Mountain Timber: Rocky Mountain Timber Products Sawmill Optimization and Expansion | $212,500 |
Gates Family Foundation: Colorado Mass Timber Coalition | $300,000 |
Colorado Timber Resources: Colorado Timber Resources LLC Sawmill Expansion | $175,000 |
Cetna Energy, LLC: Cetna Energy Walsenburg, CO, Cottage Grove, OR Biomass to Energy Project | $300,000 |
United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities: Embodied Carbon and Displacement Factor Tools | $300,000 |
PHX, LLC: Sustainable Southwest Colorado Woody Biomass Management | $200,000 |
Eagle Valley Clean Energy, LLC: Eagle Valley Clean Energy, LLC | $300,000 |
Juno Residential: Circular Mass Timber Components | $200,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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American Wood Council: US Wood Products Environmental Product Declaration Database Expansion | $253,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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University of Miami: Putting Florida Forests To Work: Developing Mass Timber Florida Buildings Typologies | $125,000 |
BBCJ Lumber, LLC: Canter/Planer Mill | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Southern Legacy Wood Products: Southern Legacy Wood Products Energy Efficiency Renovation and Expansion | $300,000 |
Claude Howard Lumber Co, Inc: Gangsaw Upgrade | $83,454 |
Georgia Forestry Commission: Georgia Forestry Commission Industrial Mass Timber Fire Prevention Workshop | $63,857 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Division of Forestry and Wildlife, DLNR Hawaii: Scaling Support for Sustainable Forestry in Hawaii | $264,000 |
Siglo Tonewoods: Expanding Koa Market Opportunities | $183,251 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Valley County: Woody Biomass Pilot Program | $150,000 |
Burbidge Custom Timbers, LLC: Timber Manufacturing Efficiency Optimization | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Dunaway Timber Company: Wood Pellet Plant in Western Kentucky | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Southern Packaging, Inc: Southern Packaging’s New Mill Investment Boosts Local Economy, and Helps Improve Forest Health | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Portland Museum of Art: Planning Support for the Portland Museum of Art's Blueprint Project | $300,000 |
TanBark Molded Fiber Products: Creating A New Market Accelerator to Replace Plastic Packaging With Type 3 Molded Fiber From Wood-based Cellulose | $300,000 |
Jesup Memorial Library: Jesup Library's Mass Timber Expansion | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Blueprint Partners Corp: Windsor Connecticut Facility | $300,000 |
Maryland DNR Forest Service: Developing Priority Projects with the Maryland Wood Energy Team | $240,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Bunker Hill Housing Redevelopment/Leggat McCall Properties: Bunker Hill Housing Redevelopment | $300,000 |
West Work, LLC: 1 Elmwood Street | $300,000 |
Lashway Lumber Inc: A Better Approach to Drying Wood in Massachusetts | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Manthei Wood Products: Manthei Wood-Fired Boiler | $300,000 |
Northern Hardwoods Lumber, LLC: Northern Hardwoods Biomass Boiler and Energy System | $1,000,000 |
Shamco Lumber, Inc: Shamco Lumber Mill and Market Expansion | $300,000 |
Michigan State University: Strategic Outreach, Engagement, and Technical Assistance: Expanding and Diversifying the Michigan Mass Timber Ecosystem to Increase Demand and Support Production | $299,929 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Dovetail Partners, Inc: Northern MN Closed Cycle Biochar Pilot | $271,480 |
Midway Contemporary Art: Midway Contemporary Art Library Mass Timber Extension | $150,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Rural, LLC: Thermally Modified Wood Products From Forest Service Timber | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Atelier May Architects: Shared Stewardships: Prototyping Mass Timber Mid-Density, Mid-Town Housing Communities | $227,500 |
National Museum of Forest Service History, Inc: The National Conservation Legacy Center: Showcasing Wood Innovations Throughout History | $150,000 |
Meadowlark Log Homes Inc: Electric Kiln for Faster Log Drying: Improving Quality in Log Home Construction | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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National Arbor Day Foundation: National Arbor Day Foundation Headquarters | $200,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Tahoe Forest Products, LLC: Small Log Line Design, Engineering, and Installation | $300,050 |
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Ossipee Mountain Land Company: Ossipee Mountain Land Company Kindling Upgrade Project | $300,000 |
Brentwood Distribution, LLC: Wood Fiber Production for Mulch and Soil Enhancement | $295,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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RC Forest Products, LLC: Supporting Biomass Wood Products Manufacturing | $113,958 |
Mount Taylor Manufacturing: Enhanced Sawmill Volume, Value and Employment, Zuni Mountains, New Mexico | $300,000 |
Got Wood NM, LLC: Got Wood NM Increased Biomass Timber Utilization | $300,000 |
Architecture 2030: The Mass Timber Tipping Point: Engaging design industry leaders to unlock the potential for widespread low-carbon timber building system | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Sylvamo, NA Ticonderoga Mill: Burn More Bark Engineering | $300,000 |
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Appalachian State University: Optimization of Hybrid Mass Timber Structures for Carbon Positive Affordable Housing | $200,000 |
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Velocys Inc: Enabling negative emissions power production with post-combustion carbon capture for woody biomass boiler facility | $300,000 |
Stairbuilders and Manufacturers Association: “Increasing the Use of Wood in Stairways and Guard Systems - A Design Tool for Architects and Engineers.” | $200,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Levi's Sawmill Services, LLC: Phase 1 of Multi-Phase Sawmill Upgrade to Restore Central Oregon Forests | $166,150 |
Adre, LLC: The Killingsworth Project - Performance Based Design for Resilient Mass Timber Creative Office | $150,000 |
KPFF: Design Parameters for Codification of Mass Timber Rocking Walls | $275,000 |
Softwood Export Council: Video to showcase the use of US softwoods in architecture and remanufacturing | $47,975 |
Wheeler Soil and Water Conservation District: Wheeler SWCD Mass Timber Facility | $300,000 |
The Beck Group: Heartwood Biomass - Capital Project Planning and Product Mix Optimization | $100,000 |
PathHouse, LLC: PathHouse | $250,000 |
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Matson Lumber Company: Improving Forest Health by Minimizing Wood Waste in the Allegheny National Forest Region | $300,000 |
Brownlee Lumber, Inc: Advancing Sawmill Efficiency & Sustainable Forestry through Optimized Edger Technology | $300,000 |
Northwest Hardwoods, Inc: Microtec CT Log Scanning Feasibility Assessment | $262,318 |
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture: Pennsylvania Wood Utilization Team | $300,000 |
WOODBED Corp: Improving low grade wood utilization and invasive pest control in the Allegheny region through an enhanced commercial firewood operation | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Centro para la Conservación del Paisaje: Analysis of the wood product supply chain in Puerto Rico | $214,000 |
Puerto Rico Hardwoods: Expanding Puerto Rico Hardwoods wood production and quality | $174,891 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Thompson Appalachian Hardwoods: Log Merchandising System for Expanded Forest Utilization in Southern Appalachia | $300,000 |
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Last Chance Lumber, LLC: Last Chance Lumber Sawmill, Part of Circle Valley Farms | $300,000 |
University of Utah: Qualification of Timber Buckling Restrained Braces and Design of 18-story Timber BRB Braced Building | $175,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Colton Enterprises, Inc: Colton Enterprises Kiln Dried Firewood Equipment & Energy System Upgrades | $300,000 |
Sweetland Farms: Agricultural use of Low-Grade Woody Biomass for Local Food Production | $243,525 |
Fontaine Millworks, LLC: Sawmill Waste to Thermal Energy for Dry Wood Chip Production, Kiln Drying and Space Heating | $274,007 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Maximizing Hardwood Utilization in CLT Through the Use of Random Width Lumber | $142,336 |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Increasing mass timber utilization for multi-use industrial buildings | $90,458 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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S.D.S. Lumber, LLC: S.D.S. Sawmill Innovative Capacity Improvements | $300,000 |
Community Roots Housing: Kent Downtown Community Tall Wood Housing | $300,000 |
CMF, LLC: Sawmill upgrade to kiln dried lumber with wood fired boiler | $134,000 |
Green Canopy NODE: Carbon offset for mass timber in long-lasting structural building elements | $300,000 |
R&D Modular, LLC: R&D Modular LLC | Prototype and Replication | $60,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point: Underutilized, sustainably managed maple to substitute imported eucalyptus pulp | $100,000 |
The Neutral Project, LLC: The Edison | $300,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Bearlodge Forest Products, Inc: Bearlodge Forest Products Mill Upgrades benefit forest health on FS & adjacent lands | $250,000 |
Western Wyoming Timber Services: Heating Western Wyoming While Contributing To Fuel Reduction | $25,443 |
Black Forks Timber Products, Inc: Black Forks Timber Products, Inc. Firewood Processor | $164,644 |
Funded Tribal Proposals
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Redding Rancheria Economic Development Corporation: Planning for Red Bluff Biomass to Hydrogen (B2H) Facility in Northern California | $300,000 |
Tahoe Forest Products (in Partnership with the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California): Small Log Line Design, Engineering, and Installation | $300,050 |
Community Wood Grants – FY 2024 Funded Proposals
Community Wood Grants, officially titled the Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Program, awards funding to shovel-ready projects to install a community wood energy system or build an innovative wood product facility. Healthy forests depend on a healthy forest products economy, and these projects directly support forest health and stimulate local economies by expanding renewable wood energy and innovative wood products manufacturing capacity.
Funded Proposals by State
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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SmartLam NA Enterprises US, LLC: SmartLam Innovative Mass Timber Manufacturing Upgrade and Expansion | $1,000,000 |
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Southeast Island School District: Thorne Bay Wood Boiler Heating Project for Teacher Housing Units | $373,500 |
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Sierra Institute for Community and Environment: Mosaic Timber: Launching Mass Timber Manufacturing in California | $1,000,000 |
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Wakefield Biochar: Wakefield Biochar Production Equipment | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Robinson Lumber Company, LLC: Dry Kiln Improvement Project to Support Local Green Sawmills | $1,000,000 |
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Teeline, Inc: Penobscot River Thermally Modified Wood Treatment Facility | $999,998 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Manthei Wood Products: Manthei Hardwood Plywood Pressing Line | $1,140,000 |
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Specialty Lumber Solutions, LLC: Missouri Community Biochar Production Project | $648,450 |
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Hancock Lumber: Combined Biomass Heat and Power Project | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Baillie Lumber Company: Install the Most Stringent Emission Control Equipment on Wood Fired Boilers | $624,750 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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High Country Lumber and Mulch, LLC: The Refurbishment and Optimization of Four Steam Powered Dry Kilns in Western N.C. | $200,722 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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CutMyTimber: Expansion of Mass Timber Fabrication Capacity | $1,000,000 |
Timberlab, Inc: Timberlab Mass Timber Fabrication Expansion | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Steely Lumber Co., Inc: Steely Lumber Feedstock Drying Expansion | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Southwest VT Supervisory Union: Renewable Energy Initiative: Biomass Boiler Systems for Sustainable Schools | $710,930 |
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Baillie Lumber Company LP: Install an Optimized Edger to Achieve Higher Recovery and Employee Opportunity | $684,617 |
The Turman Group: Turman Sawmill Innovative Lumber Grader Upgrade | $500,000 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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Energy | Alaska Gateway School District - Woodchip Heating Systems for Mentasta and Northway Schools | $499,156 |
Energy & IWP | JK Forest Products - Biomass Thermal Storage Boiler and RE-Saw Upgrade | $158,000 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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Energy & IWP | Southwest Biochar - Create a Clean and Emission Free Heat Source by Increasing Biomass Utilization 400% | $937,000 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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Energy | West Biofuels - Hat Creek Bioenergy | $1,200,000 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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IWP | Sterling Solutions - Scaling of Affordable Mass Timber | $1,000,000 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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IWP | BPM Lumber - Hardwood AI Optimized Grading & Ripping Vision Scanning System | $1,197,848 |
IWP | Heatman Charcoal - Prime 6 Biochar Manufacturing Facility | $950,000 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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IWP | TimberHP - Expanding the Market Reach and Manufacturing Capacity of Innovative Wood Fiber Insulation Board | $1,500,000 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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Energy | Koda Energy - Koda Energy Wood Processing and Dehydration | $1,000,000 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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IWP | Tech Woods USA - Mission Mountain Wood Innovation Project | $997,912 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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Energy | New London Place - Advanced Wood Fueled Combined Heat and Power in a Modern Assisted Living Community | $1,000,000 |
Energy | Britton Lumber - Combined Heat & Power | $1,000,000 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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IWP | Boise Cascade - Veneer Laminated Timber as a Candidate for Mass Timber Construction | $1,050,000 |
IWP | Patrick Lumber - Sawmill Technology Expansion | $1,000,000 |
Energy & IWP | Wisewood Energy - Expansion of Wood Pellet and Brick Production to Serve Oregon’s Bulk Wood Fuels Market | $699,161 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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IWP | Bingaman & Son Lumber - Hardwood Grade Scanner and Bin Sorter | $1,000,000 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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Energy | Cumberland Cooperage - Kiln and Boiler System Upgrade | $1,000,000 |
PROJECT TYPE | PROJECT | FUNDING |
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Energy | North Fork Lumber - Expanding Production Capacity by Installing New Biomass Fueled Kilns and Upgrading Sawmill Equipment | $945,254 |
IWP | TIMBERKRAFT - 1st Hardwood CLT Manufacturing Facility in Western Virginia | $999,547 |
Funded Tribal Proposals
APPLICANT / TITLE | FUNDING |
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Yakama Nation: Upgrading Tribal Mill Infrastructure with Advanced Production Technologies | $981,717 |
Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance Grants – FY 2024 Funded Proposals
Through the Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance grant program, the agency is providing funding to wood processing facilities to improve, establish, retrofit, or expand facilities that purchase and process byproducts from ecosystem restoration projects from federal or tribal lands. These facilities are a vital part of the local economy and are located in areas at risk of unnaturally severe wildfire or insect and disease.
Funded Proposals by State
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Arizona Log & TimberWorks, LLC: Composting Forest Waste to Produce Nutrient-Rich Soil Amendments | $1,000,000 |
Dakota Logging: Yavapai Firewood Processing Facility Equipment | $550,000 |
Novo BioPower, LLC: Biomass Power Plant Turbine Overhaul and Condenser Retube | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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California Hotwood, Inc: Oroville Firewood Processing Plant Modernization | $149,000 |
Collins Pine Company: Chester Sawmill Upgrade New Auto Grader Planer | $935,118 |
Franklin Logging, Inc: Shasta Green Sawmill Upgrades | $535,837 |
High Desert Lumber LLC: High Desert Lumber LLC Lumber and Dowel Mill Expansion | $984,197 |
HL Power Co: Emissions-Compliant Dozer Lease to Enhance Operational Efficiencies at HL Power | $1,000,000 |
Mt. Lassen Power: Mt. Lassen Power Plant Restart Project | $997,800 |
Rath Industries, Inc: Rath Industry, Inc. Sawmill Expansion | $996,099 |
Sierra Forest Products: Sierra Forest Products Planer Upgrade | $989,284 |
Trinity River Lumber Company: Northern California Sawmill Efficient Sawing System Upgrade | $465,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Biochar Now, LLC: Biochar Now's Northern Colorado Biochar Production Site Expansions | $750,000 |
Golden West Pine Mills, LLC: Increasing Mill Capacity for Existing EGAR/Mass Timber Manufacturing Facility | $933,325 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Parma Post & Pole, Inc: Parma Post & Pole Production Expansion Project | $770,264 |
Tucker’s Timber, LLC: Tucker's Timber Wood Facility Firewood Productivity Expansion | $545,669 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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California Hotwood, Inc: Montana Timberline Firewood Processing Plant Modernization | $189,045 |
Panhandle Forest Products, Inc: Big Sky Wood Treating Upgrades | $1,000,000 |
SmartLam, LLC: Advanced Mass Timber Production Expansion for Sustainable Community Development | $1,000,000 |
Stillwater Post and Pole LLC: Manufacturing Plant Improvements and Upgrades Project | $1,000,000 |
Sun Mountain Lumber, Inc: Automated Grading System Upgrade | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Tahoe Forest Products (in Partnership with the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California): Wood Planer System: Engineer, Refurbish & Install | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Brocks Wood Lot, LLC: Community Firewood Program Wood Waste Kiln System Installation | $389,656 |
Gilchrist Forest Products, LLC: Gilchrist Forest Products Chip Reloader Expansion | $900,000 |
Iron Triangle, LLC: Iron Triangle Biomass Utilization Efficiency Improvement Project | $981,651 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Forest Products Distributors, Inc: Pellet Mill Biomass Expansion | $500,000 |
Spearfish Pellet Company, LLC: Spearfish Pellet Mill Wet Electrostatic Precipitator | $928,600 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Blazzard Lumber Co, Inc: Blazzard Lumber Wood Products Equipment Expansion | $203,565 |
Thompson Sawmill: Thompson Sawmill Expansion for Wood Grinder | $619,239 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Vaagen Brothers Lumber, Inc: Colville Sawmill Retool Engineering Project | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Mentasta Traditional Council | $466,240 |
Native Village of Kluti-Kaah | $181,726 |
Shaan-Seet, Inc | $318,290 |
The Kuskokwim Corporation | $982,524 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Arizona Log & TimberWorks, LLC | $602,730 |
Novo BioPower, LLC | $752,000 |
Novo Star Wood Products | $970,000 |
Perkins Natural Resources, LLC | $163,838 |
Restoration Forest Products Group, LLC | $434,138 |
White Mountain Apache Tribe | $672,097 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Blue Mountain Electric Company, LLC | $1,000,000 |
Camptonville Community Partnership | $265,948 |
Community Renewable Energy Services, Inc | $990,058 |
Franklin Logging, Inc | $694,228 |
G.C. Forest Products, Inc | $884,000 |
Golden State Natural Resources, Inc | $500,000 |
Hat Creek Construction and Materials, Inc | $387,900 |
High Desert Lumber, LLC | $474,000 |
Hoopa Valley tribe -Hoopa Forest Industries | $796,923 |
Lignum Support, LLC | $1,000,000 |
Miracle Forest Products, LLC | $370,000 |
Phoenix Biomass Energy | $449,389 |
Plumas Corporation | $1,000,000 |
Trinity River Lumber Company | $500,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Redemption Mill | $150,747 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Sparks Lumber Company | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Pineda Post & Poles, Inc | $155,987 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
---|---|
Marks-Miller Post and Pole, Inc | $509,376 |
Wooden Haus Supply/Stoltze Timber Systems | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
---|---|
Jemez Community Development Corporation | $999,730 |
Old Wood, LLC | $976,106 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
---|---|
Tahoe Forest Products, LLC | $832,020 |
Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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City of Prineville, Oregon | $1,000,000 |
Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians | $1,000,000 |
Heartwood Biomass, LLC | $737,100 |
Prairie Wood Products, LLC | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Forest Products Distributors | $500,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
---|---|
Paul M. Young Construction | $703,225 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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SDS Lumber, LLC | $1,000,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
---|---|
Menominee Tribal Enterprises | $952,000 |
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
---|---|
Blacks Fork Timber Products, Inc | $589,864 |
Funded Tribal Proposals
APPLICANT | FUNDING |
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Galena Village: Wood Harvest Equipment for Galena, Alaska | $653,813 |
La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians: Payomkawichum Oak Salvage & Wood Product Production in Southern California | $893,444 |
Menominee Tribal Enterprises: Enhancing Efficiency and Utilization within Menominee Tribal Enterprises in Wisconsin | $866,062 |
Rosebud Sioux Tribe: Maximizing Biomass Utilization through Wood Product Expansion, for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota | $911,176 |
Scotts Valley Energy Corporation: Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians of California's Central Wood Processing Campus and Wood-to-Energy Generation | $409,957 |
Tahoe Forest Products (in Partnership with the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California): Wood Planer System: Engineer, Refurbish & Install | $1,000,000 |
The Port Graham Corp: Wood Processing and Transportation Upgrades | $725,236 |
Previous Year Grant Awardee Stories
Producing Opportunity: New sawmill opens in the Sierra Nevadas
Woody biomass heating system continues to warm students and staff at Holderness (PDF, 2.5 MB)
Blue mountain lumber products mill upgrades benefit forest restoration (PDF, 1.01 MB)
CLT from small-diameter trees: one localized innovation, multiple solutions (PDF, 428 KB)
Paper mill’s rebuilt biomass boiler supports jobs and lowers emissions (PDF, 286 KB)