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Logging for Power

The Eagle Valley Clean Energy biomass plant in Gypsum, Colorado.

Piles of biomass at the Eagle Valley Clean Energy biomass facility uses wood from forest removal operations on the White River National Forest.

Before removing a forest, a logging crew will mark the boundaries of the clear cut with posted signs like this one in Northern Colorado.

In some cases before forest removal, logging crews will indicate which trees should be cut like these two lodgepole pines there were killed by Mountain Pine Beetle infestation in Colorado.

US Forest Service logging permit details posted on a sign at the edge of a large scale forest removal operation in Northern Colorado.

Logging machinery that can cut move and stack lodgepole pine trees killed by Mountain Pine Beetles on the White River National Forest

A dead lodgepole pine tree on the edge of a new logging road created during a massive clear cut operation to harvest lodgepole pine trees for biomass energy generation.

A logging operation harvests century old lodgepole pine trees in the White River National Forest.

Forest removal is often carried out by small logging crews including this one where a single machine operator clear cuts a massive swath of lodgepole pine trees in Northern Colorado.

A massive claw stacks lodgepole pines that have been cut by logging crews in Northern Colorado.

A massive stack of lodgepole pine trees along a newly cut road at the edge of a clear cut.

The tell tale blue staining indicates that these immature lodgepole pines were killed by Mountain Pine Beetle infestation then cut to be used for biomass energy generation.

Forest removal operations with views of ski runs on Vail Mountain in Colorado.

Forest ranger looking out over the clear cut logging operation he managed in Northern Colorado.

A rise once covered in a thick stand of lodgepole pine trees is now clear cut leaving behind the scars of forest removal including new roads.

A helicopter removes lodgepole pine trees from a clear cut in the White River National Forest.

A network of new logging roads have been cut into what was previously roadless areas in the White River National Forest to clear cut lodgepole pine trees impacted by climate change.

Just below Mount of the Holy Cross at the edge of the Holy Cross Wilderness Area an enormous clear cut of lodgepole pine trees is seen looking down from 18,000 feet.

A logging truck loaded with lodgepole pine trees harvested from the White River National Forest.

Last light and early snow on a stack of harvested lodgepole pine trees in the White River National Forest in Colorado.

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