By Jeff Barnard
The Associated Press
Appeared In: The Register-Guard, Sunday, Aug 30, 2009 ,
MERLIN — For the past decade that the U.S. Forest Service has been pressing to thin hundreds of millions of acres of trees in danger of burning up, it has had one nagging problem: how to come up with the billions of dollars to pay for it.
Young trees are too small for lumber. Transporting the bulky material to biomass power plants is too expensive. And cutting big trees to pay for thinning the small ones often runs afoul of environmental laws.
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