s2ary
09-07-2007, 06:54 PM
Controlling invasive species by converting their biomass into a Green Fuel.
For 3 years we have been developing invasive species biomass programs that will generate a dollar value to be applied to eradicating the species.
It has been a long road, a huge investment and a leap of faith, but we are only one step away.
The idea is that large land holders; Towns, Ma, NH, & Me DOT, USFWS, etc. enroll their invasive species acreage into a control program. We then go in and harvest the above ground biomass and sell it as a biofuel to a biomass burning electric plant. The money generated by the sale of the biomass is then turned into match money for a federal grant to eradicate the invasive species in the areas we harvest.
It is a lot more complicated than that, but that is the program in a nut shell. It means a huge change in the way invasive species are currently managed; it will result in a huge increase in the amount of control currently conducted each year.
It also means the end of the current BMP of indiscriminately and indefinitely spraying herbicides known to kill marine invertebrates, larval crabs, lobsters, clams, clam worms, scuds and frog tadpoles in or near wetland areas. I can’t say enough bad things about that misguided program. :evil:
For 3 years we have been developing invasive species biomass programs that will generate a dollar value to be applied to eradicating the species.
It has been a long road, a huge investment and a leap of faith, but we are only one step away.
The idea is that large land holders; Towns, Ma, NH, & Me DOT, USFWS, etc. enroll their invasive species acreage into a control program. We then go in and harvest the above ground biomass and sell it as a biofuel to a biomass burning electric plant. The money generated by the sale of the biomass is then turned into match money for a federal grant to eradicate the invasive species in the areas we harvest.
It is a lot more complicated than that, but that is the program in a nut shell. It means a huge change in the way invasive species are currently managed; it will result in a huge increase in the amount of control currently conducted each year.
It also means the end of the current BMP of indiscriminately and indefinitely spraying herbicides known to kill marine invertebrates, larval crabs, lobsters, clams, clam worms, scuds and frog tadpoles in or near wetland areas. I can’t say enough bad things about that misguided program. :evil: