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[Taildragerdriver]

Hello All:

I am interested in many science issues. I am a forester and range conservationist by training and profession. I work for the US Forest Service as a developer of a decision support application. I am the science leader for this application.

I live and work in a small town in NE Oregon. My initial reason for getting into this is Terra Preta (Amazon Dark Earth)on a personal issue that I am interested in. I own a few pastures in the local area. These pastures have been heavily irrigated for over 100 years. They are very leached out with relatively low organic matter and fertility. I am interested in attempting to produce large amounts of charcole from local wood slash. I am looking to solve two problems.

The first is improving my pastures long term and second in finding a way to utilize forest biomass to reduce forest fire intensity and in the local Wildland/Urban Interface. In a way that is economicaly viable for the public and private lands.

Thanks