Despite a challenging 2019, FPAC’s Derek Nighbor says the future is bright for Canada’s forest product industry. So too say ERA’s Kevin Mason; CNBC’s Diana Olick; Furture Markets’ Willam Strausss and the Motley Fool. Meanwhile: Nova Scotia names transition team on fallout of its Northern Pulp decision, while the company considers keeping the plant in hot idle.

In Forestry/Wildfire news: spring flooding in BC may be worsened due to logging; Washington state is being sued by ENGOs and others over plans to sell timber; agriculture contemplates life without glyphosate; and Canada and the US send more specialists to help Australia as the gov’t calls up 3000 reservists, and says it will pay “whatever it takes“.

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Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor