The study had a primary goal to determine the feasibility of deriving public benefit using biomass from the existing Salmon-Challis forest in Lemhi and Custer counties.

Activities resulting from this study  had both direct and indirect social, economic, and environmental benefits. Woody biomass, which consists of trees and woody shrubs, including the bark, limbs, tops, needles, leaves, stumps, and roots, as well as wood infected with disease and insects, has historically been un-economical to process.

This feasibility project has examined the cost of various process options to produce revenue from the available wood sources, and the costs associated with harvesting the wood sources from the aforementioned forest system.  The study evaluated the technical options for processing the forest biomass, including power generation, bio-refinery products and wood fiber products. 

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