Canada’s fall economic statement includes billions for tree planting and ecosystem restoration; and FPAC says growth opportunities still exist with the bioeconomy. In other Business news: unseasonable demand keeps lumber prices up; homebuilders and dealers say more lumber tariff cuts needed; Stella-Jones adds Weyerhaeuser exec. to its Board; and a fire damaged Tolko’s  shuttered Quesnel mill.

In Forestry/Climate news: Quebec supports effort to produce biofuels from forest waste; Montana’s whitebark pine proposed for species protection; Oregon’s wildfires impact endangered spotted owls, as the state looks to salvage log some timber stands; forest management’s carbon mitigation potential; and megatrends that will affect future forests.

Finally, Christmas trees that hold their needles for 3 months. Now that’s SMART.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor