Consumer confidence in the US surged to its highest level in a year. In related news: some lumber/construction price trend stories from British Columbia, Nova Scotia; Missouri and North Dakota; the San Group’s Port Alberni reman plant opens for business; West Fraser restores production at its Quebec OSB mill; Interfor is hiring in BC; and Kalesnikoff celebrates their new mass timber plant.

In Forestry news: the Nova Scotia Biodiversity Act changes beget protests, solidarity sit-ins and political opposition; while a nearby hunger-striker ends his colossal fast. Meanwhile, Project Learning Tree celebrates National Indigenous Languages Day in Canada; an Aboriginal title settlement lawyer’s statement on BC’s forest land ownership misses the market for this reader; and a proposed US Safe Routes Act would improve log truck efficiency, safety.

Finally, the International Mass Timber (virtual) Conference kicks-off today.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor