Entrepreneurs are seeing opportunity in the bark beetle epidemic... among them is Mark Mathis, of Confluence Energy.His company has gotten the go-ahead from the town of Kremmling - in Northwestern Colorado- to build a wood pellet factory.Mathis spoke to Ryan Warner.
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