After the massive wildfires that burned across North America in 2017, mitigation and salvage are top of mind concerns for the sector. Concerned citizens in Curry County Oregon not only support salvage logging, but are calling a proposed harvest “grossly inadequate” and lacking common sense. West Virginia’s agriculture commissioner isn’t as excited about logging, calling a bill that would open state parks to harvesting (to fund park improvements) “poorly thought out”. And, in Australia, one woman lived in a tree for  449 days to draw attention to deforestation — culminating in a successful world heritage listing. 

In Business news: EACOM has installed a continuous dry kiln in Timmins Ontario to increase output and improve efficiency; Price Edward Island’s premier joins those concerned about effluent from Northern Pulp; and will the TPP affect NAFTA talks? Lead negotiator for Canada, Steve Verheul says, “It has not come up yet — so far.”

— Sandy McKellar, Tree Frog Editor