Hat Creek Lumber, Inc. (HCL), in partnership 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 utilize electricity and heat from the co-located bioenergy facility. The sawmill will be located adjacent to the bio-energy facility on 20 acres at the FBBC.

Community-scale sawlog projects provide many long-term benefits to local forest and communities. The sawmill will source forest biomass and other feedstock from about a 50-mile radius from both public and private forests - bringing the following benefits to local ecosystems and communities.

By co-locating a small diameter sawmill with the bio-energy facility and other potential co-located businesses, allows for the ecological restoration projects to off load logs and woody biomass at the FBBC to be process to wood products at the sawmill that can send it’s wood waste to help power the bio-energy facility.

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.