Stump harvesting

In plantation forests in parts of Europe, the tree stumps left after felling are now sometimes pulled out of the ground to supply wood fuel for biomass power stations.

During the 20th century in the United States longleaf pine stumps were harvested for extraction of naval stores from the resinous wood.

Records of tree stumps being dug out of the ground for wood fuel go back hundreds of years in Europe.

Recently small scale commercial stump harvesting has started in parts of Scotland to provide fuel for biomass power stations.

In the 1970s, a number of trials were set up in Finland to examine the viability of stump harvesting for woody biomass, but it is only in recent years[when?]