Editor's Note:

We congratulate the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, the Center for Producer Owned Energy, the Aitkin County Land Department, th Aitkin County Economic Development/Forest Industry Coordinator and BBI International for completing the attached assessment of renewable energy opportunties in Aitkin County, Minnesota. Minnesota has some of the best managed forests we've ever had the pleasure of visiting. Every county in the United States with woody biomass potential should be funding a study just like this one. To learn more about Minnesota's forests, click here to go to the "Best of Evergreen" and read "Minnesota White Pine: Window on the Past, Bridge to the Future," our Spring 2000 issue.

Click here for Aitkin County's Biomass Utilization Study.