Hat Creek Lumber, LLC. (HCL), in collaboration with Camptonville Community Partnership (CCP), is pursuing the construction of a small sawmill with the capacity to process 15 million board feet of sawlogs. The mill will be designed to process up to 40-inch diameter trees and will be located adjacent to the bioenergy facility on 20 acres at the FBBC.

The FBBC envisions providing opportunities for businesses to co-locate with their anchor tenant the biomass energy plant to create circular economies through symbiotic business relationships.

For example, by co-locating a small diameter sawmill with the bioenergy facility the sawmill can purchase power and heat from the biomass facility and the sawmill wood waste can feed the biomass facility securing a sustainable relationship for both operations. Additionally, this allows for the ecological restoration projects occurring on the surrounding landscape to off load logs and woody biomass at the FBBC to be processed into wood products at the sawmill.

Hat Creek Lumber, LLC and CCP recently were awarded funding through the USFS Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance (WPIA) Program grant to begin the initial research and planning for the sawmill including but not limited to geotechnical study, permitting, and preliminary design and engineering.

Grant Announcement can be found here.