Building with wood can help save the planet according to a study in Nature Sustainability, and there is enough wood resources available to sustainably supply 90% of future buildings. In related news: how wood supports the EU’s new Green Deal; FPInnovations on wood’s health benefits, and a Canadian Architect Award of Merit for a mass timber project in Calgary.

In other news: although US new home sales dropped three months in a row, Forbes is bullish on construction in 2020; India’s dumping probe adds to Canadian newsprint woes; BC’s forestry contractors are caught in the middle of the strike; and the climate-consensus on the import of increasing the fire resilience of forests.

Finally, Al Gorley and Garry Merkel on the surprising consensus on old-growth logging in BC.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor