By Craig Young, Reporter-Herald BERTHOUD — James Gaspard points to a pile of charred logs, burned in the 2013 Black Forest fire, and says, “What else were they going to do with it?” What else, he means, than shred the 50 truckloads of trees, cook the wood at 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit and sell it as a high-quality carbon product called biochar, which is what his Berthoud-area company does. Biochar Now, which the Loveland resident founded with local serial entrepreneur Bill Beierwaltes in 2011, has 40 large steel kilns operating on the 17-acre property it leases southeast of Berthoud. Beierwaltes, the company’s former CEO and still a part-owner, has retired from active involvement, Gaspard said. With a few million dollars of investment, Biochar would be ready to increase its Berthoud operation to 120 kilns and fire up the technology nationwide, Gaspard said. “We’re negotiating expansion sites currently in California, British Columbia, the southeast United States,” he said. MULTIPLE BENEFITS Biochar Now’s product has a variety of uses, Gaspard said.

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