This webinar Speaker is Kelpie Wilson. Kelpie is an engineer and analyst with 35 years of experience in renewable energy, sustainable forestry and resource conservation. Since 2008, she has focused on biochar. She has consulted with private industry and government agencies through her company Wilson Biochar. Her contracts have included work for the International Biochar Initiative, Washington Department of Ecology, North Dakota Forest Service, Great Plains Biochar Initiative, Oregon Biochar Solutions, Long Tom Restoration Council, California Almond Board, and many others. She is also a founding board member of the US Biochar Initiative. Kelpie works directly with forest managers, the wood products industry, and farmers to develop systems for making biochar from waste biomass.