The Canadian government is one step away from issuing an emergency protection order to protect dwindling caribou herds in Alberta and BC after finding them under imminent threat. In other Forestry news: BC adds firefighters for the upcoming season; Alberta plans to monitor its forest fires by satellite; Nova Scotia approves a pesticide to fight the beech leaf weevil; and Arizona fires have already destroyed 33 homes. 

In Business news: the lumber supercycle means share gains for Canadian forestry companies; while builders in New Mexico and developers in Minnesota blame Trump’s duties for the higher lumber costs. Elsewhere, China ups its quarantine checks on US log imports only days after meetings to ease trade tensions.

Finally, Alberta’s Jason Kenny declares war on the “green left”, BC’s Andrew Weaver says we must “internalize externalities”; and Vancouver’s ‘wood whisperer’ (Brent Comber) provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of his studio.

–Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor