News & Updates

The November 8, 2018 Camp Fire devastated the Town of Paradise along with over 150,000 acres. TSS is assisting Butte County Fire Safe Council’s (BSFSC) efforts to restore the community of Paradise and surrounding forestland. Over one million trees were damaged by the Camp Fire and will likely be...

Southern California Edison (SCE) is investigating the potential opportunity to site a biomass power generation facility on SCE property near Shaver Lake, California. Current forest conditions in the upland watersheds in the region are a major concern. Wildlife habitat, recreation opportunities,...

Red Rock Biofuels, LLC is constructing an advanced biofuels production facility at Lakeview, Oregon. At full buildout the plant will utilize 166,000 BDT of forest feedstock per year to produce approximately 15 million gallons of renewable diesel and aviation fuel. TSS has been retained to assess...

TSS is currently preparing California Environmental Quality Act environmental assessment and impact analysis documents for several biomass power plant projects to built and operated under the California Bioenergy Market Adjusting Tariff (BioMAT) program.  These biomass facilities will be utilizing...

Both Amador County and Calaveras County (California) have been severely impacted by drought conditions that have caused tree mortality throughout each county. Tree mortality within each county is estimated to be tens of thousands of trees.  Both counties have retained TSS as the Tree Mortality...