Canfor, CEO Don Kayne is stepping down at end of 2024 and Susan Yurkovich is his successor. In other Business news: Jason Fisher is appointed Executive Director of the Forest Enhancement Society of BC; Premier Eby talks lumber tariffs with US ambassador Cohen; Clearwater Paper sells its tissue business to Sofidel America; and Suzano starts-up the world’s largest pulp production line.

In Forestry/Wildfire news: Pennsylvania has a new plan for forestry; Yale360 on killing one owl species to save another; BC ENGOs say salvage logging after fire makes things worse; New Zealand researchers tout the benefits of short rotation forestry; out of control wildfires threaten Jasper, Alberta; Williams Lake and Revelstoke, BC; Oregon researchers predict where and when fires will occur; and Istanbul deploys AI and drones.

Finally, per the EU climate service Copernicus, Sunday was the world’s hottest day ever.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor