Fire use is critical to managing western landscapes, however there are emerging alternatives to open burning that may be useful to range and forest managers. This talk will introduce the basics of pyrolysis and torrifaction as a means to reduce fuel loading in wildland and urban settings. Since 2010, the Utah Biomass Resources Group (UBRG) has been addressing this problem with the development and application of gasification and pyrolysis technologies. We have identified appropriate technologies and worked with Amaron Energy and others to make this technology mobile and appropriately scaled. The UBRG has also begun to investigate the efficacy of various low cost mobile pyrolysis kilns, these will also be introduced in this session.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.