There may also be an unpleasant odor, depending on the type of mold present. However, moldy wood chips can be repurposed to ...

When wood chips break down, they add nutrients to the soil. "These nutrients help to support a wide variety of organisms, from the bacteria and fungi that help it decompose to invertebrates like ...

One option includes using fungi. "It would be another line of defence," said Sheila Gilmour, mayor of the community about 250 ...

Boulder Mushrooms, a company based in Colorado, already uses fungi as a way to help prevent forest fires by turning slash piles into wood chips, inoculating them with mushroom spores.