The 10,000 tons of downed trees and woody waste that Douglas County’s planned biochar facility will process in a year will mean 10,000 fewer tons of fuel lying in wait to feed Colorado’s next cataclysmic wildfire.
That’s a big selling point for Dylan Williams, the wildfire mitigation and resilience coordinator for Douglas County. He sees biochar — a carbon-rich, charcoal-like material produced with intense heat and little oxygen — as the “next level of wildfire mitigation.”
The $8 million biochar plant in Sedalia, which will begin construction soon, is being billed as the first county-owned facility of its type in the country…