Forest sector awards and commendations top today’s headlines, including: Canfor’s Mark Feldinger (FPAC’s lifetime achievement award); EACOM’s Christine Leduc, Strategic’s Kim Lefebvre and Interfor’s Margo Lore (three of CFI’s top-10-under-40); and Derrick Wilkins and Clint Johnson (Arkansas Forestry Association’s top logger and top educator, respectively). Companies in the news include: Cascades (Pennsylvania mill closures); Resolute (dispute with Port Hawkesbury Paper); and Interfor (Gilchrist mill sale). 

In other news: BC’s Spruce beetle outbreak tops 1.3 million ha; the Great Miramichi Fire may be North America’s biggest ever; human cost not acreage should be focus of California’s wildfires; New England’s forests need more tree doctors; and California protects 30% of state land to mitigate wildfires.

Finally, the postponed Canadian Bioeconomy Conference releases their video substitute.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor