Loyalton Biomass

Grant: $30,000

The Tahoe Fund’s top priority is forest health, with a focus on increasing the pace and scale of forest restoration in the Tahoe Basin. A major issue our public land managers face is the lack of places to offload woody biomass. Before the Carson City sawmill was opened, there was nowhere feasible to take the excess biomass, resulting in hundreds of thousands of burn piles sitting in the Basin.

The Tahoe Fund would like to see the Loyalton Biomass facility reopened to help with the off-take issues. To help facilitate the financing required to re-open this facility, the Tahoe Fund hired TSS Consultants to develop a Resource Study of available forest biomass and log supply within the economic transport distance of the Loyalton site.