Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Native grasses as biofuel aids wildlife

UPI.com

HOUGHTON, Mich., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Using prairie plants to produce bio-energy would help bird populations threatened by the conversion of grasslands to corn, scientists in Michigan said.

"There are ways to grow biofuel that are more benign," David Flaspohler, an environmental scientist at Michigan Tech, said in the journal BioScience.

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