Postmedia’s Rob Shaw says the NDP’s goal with Western Forest Products is less about resolving the strike and more about breaking the company’s hold on Crown tenures. In related news: industry grasps for hope amid 7-month strike; closed mills begets higher lumber prices; and BC’s bridge loan to forestry contractors has some critics. Elsewhere: UNIFOR wants to be on Nova Scotia’s Pictou County transition team, as a neighbouring community offers advice from their paper mill closure.

In other news: David Suzuki says more conservation is needed to fight climate change; a new study says Northern Ontario forests are becoming less resilient to fire; the US Forest Service celebrates high timber sales in 2019; and the North American Wholesale Lumber Association’s 2020 Mulrooney Award goes to… Jim Robbins Sr. of Robbins Lumber in Maine.

Finally, what’s next after tall wood—a fungus megastructure?

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor