	Our Pellets Our Quality Obsession We are obsessed with providing only the best Premium, Hardwood pellets in every bag. It starts with the raw material. With pellets it’s pretty simple. Whatever goes in at the beginning of the process is what ends up in the pellet. We use only whole logs harvested through Timber Stand Improvement projects. (More on that later.) Immediately before the logs enter our production process, we strip off all the bark, dirt and debris to insure that only pure hardwood enters our process. Pure Hardwood. Perfect Burn. Next it takes the right process. We designed everything in our state of the art plant around producing the best quality pellet. Here are a few of the highlights: On-site debarking and chipping to insure purity. Computer controlled dryer, fueled using only dust we extract throughout our manufacturing process. Pellet mills designed to provide consistent pellets every time. Screening and aspiration processes that insure that you get only premium pellets in every bag, not a lot of dust. Finally, it takes a commitment to quality from the entire team. Our Production Team and all of us here at Great American Pellets know it’s our name on every bag, on every pallet, on every delivery. We focus on providing you the highest quality premium pellets every single time. And we haven’t forgotten the environment. We all know how great wood pellets are for the protecting our environment…Clean burning, carbon neutral combustion. At Great American Pellets, we not only protect the environment - We improve it. At Great American Pellets, we get our raw material from trees harvested in Timber Stand Improvement Projects. Timber Stand Improvement (TSI) is the process of reducing the density of living trees for the overall improvement of a given forest stand. This thinning allows the remaining, trees to thrive. Currently, the amount of wood grown in the United States is more than double the amount harvested. On average, undesirable trees occupy one third of the total growing space available. Forests with many small diameter trees can lead to underdeveloped crowns, poor tree growth, and poor form. This can result in low-quality timber, high tree mortality, an underdeveloped organic layer, and little to no understory or natural regeneration. The utilization of low-grade forest products over the past few decades has created new opportunities for landowners to realize financial benefits from trees that previously were of little value but are an ideal source of bio fuel. There are many economic, ecological and wildlife-related benefits associated with TSI. Because TSI is designed to improve the health and productivity of the forest, many of the above treatments also benefit such things as water quality, forest soils, and aesthetic value. As forest improvement measures are taken, the forest canopy will begin to open up and will in turn encourage vigorous growth by the remaining tree crowns. Healthy tree crowns provide more shade, help maintain moderate water and soil temperatures, and produce more organic matter With more moisture and growing room available trees are better able to withstand stresses caused by insects, disease and drought Wildlife also highly benefits from TSI. Increased crown growth yields higher fruit production and can even reduce the amount of time it takes a tree to reach maturity. New forest openings promote an understory growth which will increase the forests’ structural diversity and attract a wider variety of wildlife species. Great American Pellets is proud to do our part in improving our environment by supporting Timber Stand Improvement.

Our Pellets

Our Quality Obsession

We are obsessed with providing only the best Premium, Hardwood pellets in every bag.

It starts with the raw material.

With pellets it’s pretty simple. Whatever goes in at the beginning of the process is what ends up in the pellet.

We use only whole logs harvested through Timber Stand Improvement projects. (More on that later.) Immediately before the logs enter our production process, we strip off all the bark, dirt and debris to insure that only pure hardwood enters our process. Pure Hardwood. Perfect Burn.

Next it takes the right process.

We designed everything in our state of the art plant around producing the best quality pellet.

Here are a few of the highlights:

On-site debarking and chipping to insure purity.
Computer controlled dryer, fueled using only dust we extract throughout our manufacturing process.
Pellet mills designed to provide consistent pellets every time.
Screening and aspiration processes that insure that you get only premium pellets in every bag, not a lot of dust.

Finally, it takes a commitment to quality from the entire team.

Our Production Team and all of us here at Great American Pellets know it’s our name on every bag, on every pallet, on every delivery. We focus on providing you the highest quality premium pellets every single time.

And we haven’t forgotten the environment.

We all know how great wood pellets are for the protecting our environment…Clean burning, carbon neutral combustion.

At Great American Pellets, we not only protect the environment - We improve it.

At Great American Pellets, we get our raw material from trees harvested in Timber Stand Improvement Projects.

Timber Stand Improvement (TSI) is the process of reducing the density of living trees for the overall improvement of a given forest stand. This thinning allows the remaining, trees to thrive.

Currently, the amount of wood grown in the United States is more than double the amount harvested. On average, undesirable trees occupy one third of the total growing space available. Forests with many small diameter trees can lead to underdeveloped crowns, poor tree growth, and poor form. This can result in low-quality timber, high tree mortality, an underdeveloped organic layer, and little to no understory or natural regeneration.

The utilization of low-grade forest products over the past few decades has created new opportunities for landowners to realize financial benefits from trees that previously were of little value but are an ideal source of bio fuel.

There are many economic, ecological and wildlife-related benefits associated with TSI. Because TSI is designed to improve the health and productivity of the forest, many of the above treatments also benefit such things as water quality, forest soils, and aesthetic value.

As forest improvement measures are taken, the forest canopy will begin to open up and will in turn encourage vigorous growth by the remaining tree crowns. Healthy tree crowns provide more shade, help maintain moderate water and soil temperatures, and produce more organic matter With more moisture and growing room available trees are better able to withstand stresses caused by insects, disease and drought

Wildlife also highly benefits from TSI. Increased crown growth yields higher fruit production and can even reduce the amount of time it takes a tree to reach maturity. New forest openings promote an understory growth which will increase the forests’ structural diversity and attract a wider variety of wildlife species.