Canada’s forest industry is poised to supply the global bioeconomy sector with renewable wood fibre. …However, due to the high costs associated with procuring forest biomass and its low market value, many forest practitioners wonder how they can capitalize on this new product stream. To better understand this financial barrier, researchers from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and Université Laval established a research study to investigate the integration of forest biomass within the conventional wood product procurement process. Within the mixedwood and conifer forests of Quebec’s Gaspésie Peninsula, researchers established three study sites to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of an integrated forest biomass supply chain. …Researchers used four different harvest intensities to determine the costs associated with various levels of sawtimber, pulpwood and forest biomass recovery and the silvicultural costs for site regeneration.