Wood Products and Bioenergy 2
Maintaining and enhancing the wood products infrastructure of California to support healthy resilient forests along with the people and ecosystems that depend on them.
Interests
- Wood products manufacturing
- Bioenergy: biomass-based power generation and fuel production
- Forest-sector workforce development and training
Mission
- Strengthen California’s wood products infrastructure
- Support healthy, resilient forests
- Benefit California's communities and ecosystems
Vision
- A robust, diverse wood products industry
- Sustainable forest management statewide
- Economic opportunity through forest stewardship
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- Grants at Work - Hat Creek Bioenergy
- Grants at Work - Forestry Mini Camp
- Grants at Work - American Wood Fibers
- Grants at Work - Fire Forward
- Grants at Work - American Forests Cone Camp
- Grants at Work - Del Logging
- Grants at Work - Cal Forest Nursery
- Grants at Work - Reedley College
- Grants at Work - Sierra Pacific Industries Conifer Nursery
- Grants at Work - Tuolumne Biomass
- Wood Products and Bioenergy 2025 Annual Report
- Wood Products and Bioenergy 2024 Annual Report
- Wood Products and Bioenergy 2023 Annual Report
- 2023 Biomass Offtake Opportunities and Logistics
- 2022 Wood Products Team Annual Report
- 2023 Biomass Subsidy White Paper
- Long-Term Economic Impacts of Large Fires in California from 2018-2021: Losses and OpportunitiesExternal Link
- Report: The Case for Composite Wood Panel Mills in California
Deputy Chief
John.McCarthy@fire.ca.gov
(916) 531-6110
Division Chief, Planning
Jason.Butcher@fire.ca.gov
(707) 672-4779
Division Chief, Operations
Daniel.Sooy@fire.ca.gov
(916) 531-8996
Grants Analyst
Ryan.Crockett@fire.ca.gov
(916) 247-1064