American Loggers Council
Working with our client the American Loggers Council (ALC), we assist the Council in its mission to be the national voice of professional loggers, uniting independent loggers and log truck contractors with key resources, advocacy, education, and networking opportunities. Our services for the Council include event planning and hosting, support for the executive committee and board of directors, website and social media maintenance, and grant writing and administration services.
In partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, we administered the Biomass Transportation Incentive Pilot (BTIP) for ALC. This first-of-its-kind project helped address one of the biggest barriers to hazardous fuels reduction — the high cost of transporting low-value woody material from the forest to facilities where it can be put to productive use.
The pilot transported 113,226 green tons of wildfire fuels from 4,151 acres across nine National Forests in California and Oregon in less than eight months. Rather than being left in the woods or open-pile burned, the material was delivered to biomass power plants and a forest products facility for renewable electricity and other wood products.
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The success of the pilot helped lead to the development of the Hazardous Fuels Transportation Assistance (HFTA) Program, a multi-year U.S. Forest Service program that provides financial assistance to help offset the cost of transporting forest products removed through hazardous fuels reduction projects. RRS continues to administer this work for ALC, helping coordinate the movement of material from National Forest lands to biomass and forest products facilities.
The program supports both forest health and the forest products industry by helping make needed fuels reduction treatments more economically feasible, reducing wildfire risk, and creating opportunities to put low-value forest material to productive use. ALC currently serves as a grant administrator for the program and works directly with biomass facilities to help move material off the landscape and into markets.
In 2025, the BTIP project team received the USDA Secretary’s Honor Award, the Department’s highest recognition, for the success of the pilot and its contributions to forest health, wildfire mitigation, renewable energy, and rural communities.
