News & Updates
Washoe Tribe Wood For Elders Program
The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California has retained TSS to conduct a review of their commercial-scale firewood production enterprise. Currently scaled to produce about 600 cords/year, the Tribe would like to grow the enterprise to double current production. Much of the firewood produced is...
TSS Successfully Permits a Almond Shell to Biochar Project in Northern California
TSS, under the direction of Frederick Tornatore, Chief Technical Officer, successfully secured land use and air quality permits for an almond shell to biochar project in Northern California. The facility, which is currently under construction, will convert up to 48,000 tons of almond shells to...
TSS Retained by the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe to Conduct Bioenergy Project Analysis
The Cow Creek Band is managing about 48,000 acres of Tribal forestland in central Oregon. As the Tribe conducts forest restoration activities across this forestland, small sub-merchantable logs and cull logs are generated. TSS is helping the Tribe with value-added utilization alternatives, (thus...
Wildfire Risk Mitigation Project on the California Central Coast
Hyatt Hotels retained TSS Consultants to conduct a wildfire risk mitigation assessment for a destination resort located on the California Central Coast – Alila Ventana Big Sur. Ventana Resort is situated on 160 acres of forestland considered at high risk to wildfire. Recent wildfires (2020 Dolan...