Clarksburg Field Tour

Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest invites you to join AHB researchers for a day out in the field at the Clarksburg Demonstration Site! Come see hybrid poplar’s full growth potential in Clarksburg, California at the peak of their second growing season. As a purpose-grown crop for bioenergy, the poplars have great potential as a sustainable feedstock for biofuel and bioproduct production in the Pacific Northwest.

Join extension professionals, policy makers, researchers, environmental professionals, and local landowners in learning about the latest biofuel and bioproduct developments in the Pacific Northwest. Topics include:

• Growing hybrid poplar as a short rotation woody energy crop
• Sustainable production and environmental impacts on soil, water, and wildlife
• Best areas to develop biofuel and bioproduct industries
• Biomass production tour highlighting operational and research poplar plots

When: Thursday, September 10, 2014 | Noon – 2:30pm

Where: near Clarksburg, California

RSVP: Contact Nora Haider at WSU Extension: nora.haider@wsu.edu or 425-741-9962

Additional tours at AHB demonstration sites are also being arranged.

• Jefferson, OR | September 4, 2014
• Hayden, ID | October 6, 2014

Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication or program information or reasonable accommodation need to contact Nora Haider at nora.haider@wsu.edu, 425-741-9962 at least two weeks prior to the event. Extension programs and employment are available to all without discrimination. Evidence of noncompliance may be reported through your local Extension office.