SCR Management was hired in 2010 by the Rocky Mountain Trench Natural Resources Society to assist in the development of bioenergy opportunities to support fuels treatments in the wildland urban interface and for ecosystem restoration within the BC Rocky Mountain Trench. SCR assisted with the development of a Memorandum of Understanding between the RMTNS, the St. Mary’s Indian Band and the municipalities of Kimberley and Cranbrook, BC. As the MOU established a formal working relationship between the parties, SCR assisted the proponents develop a funding proposal to the Columbia Basin Trust and several other funding agencies for developing multiple bioenergy projects. The proponents are working with the provincial government and the BC Forest Service to support the study within the region as there are an approximate 87,000 hectares of ecosystem restoration work yet to be treated in the area with an estimated 3 million tons of biomass that could support multiple bioenergy projects.