High lumber prices have both positive and negative impacts in Mississippi; but are masking Canadian industry concerns re: trade uncertainty, tax competitiveness and regulatory delays.

In Wood Products news: Ontario architects get support for tall wood structures; Chicago’s first CLT building only a first step in that direction; an APA study finds flexible structural sheathing products overstate their lateral load resistance; and a Montana company is incorporating old wood into their timber frame structures.

In Forestry headlines: the Sierra Club on BC’s rainforests; the Powell River Peak on logger sports; the Montreal Economic Institute on species at risk; and the BC Supreme Court on former forests minister Rich Coleman.    

Finally, Hip hop forestry at Yale and Winnie-the-Pooh’s original Hundred Acre Wood illustration sells for £430,000 at auction.

–Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor