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Forest Health Council warns rising biomass costs threaten forest treatments; members call for workforce and market solutions
Summary
Members of the Colorado Forest Health Council’s legislative committee said rising biomass-management costs are making many projects financially unviable and urged development of workforce pipelines and market solutions; the committee directed staff to pursue data and outside presentations for deeper analysis.
Colorado Forest Health Council legislative committee members said Wednesday that escalating costs for handling woody biomass threaten the pace and scale of forest-treatment projects across the state and urged more focus on workforce development and supply‑chain solutions.
At the meeting July 11, Chair Jody Shadd McNally outlined the council’s upcoming presentation to the Wildfire Matters Review Committee and flagged biomass as an item the legislative subcommittee intends to refine for the full council. Committee member Mark Morgan pressed for an honest accounting of what material truly needs removal and what can be managed in place, and urged the council to examine where costs are driving projects from affordable to unaffordable.
"We're making $2,000 an acre projects into 4 or $5,000 an acre projects,"…
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