Lee Fong Park Bandshell Utilizes Local Materials

Trinity County RCD and the Northwest California Resource Conservation and Development Council are working together under a grant from the US Forest Service to promote Biomass Utilization in Trinity County. Currently the two organizations are working to build a demonstration project at Lee Fong Park, which will include a pole structure to cover part of the stage of the amphitheater. The project, which will begin construction this summer, will use Douglas fir poles which have been processed in Hayfork by The Watershed Research and Training Center. The poles came from fuels reduction projects within Trinity County and are from undersize timber that previously had been thought of as having no value. This project will demonstrate one possible application of smaller trees. Additional funding for this project has been obtained from the McConnell Fund of the Shasta Regional Community Foundation.