BC announced support for the forest-sector with $5.1 million for valued-added manufacturing. In related news: BC Timber Sales is being reviewed; lumber prices hit a 6-week high; and the US housing market moderates amid higher energy costs. Meanwhile, Canadian premiers say nothing is off the table in response to US tariff threats; and the world’s 4th largest global forestry fund secures new investors.

In Forestry/Wildfire news: a much needed break for the wildfires in California; students can enrol in BC’s first wildfire studies program; Alaskan bears become internet sensations; the costs of Hurricane Helene are totalled; and the best places to plant 2 billion trees are probably not where you think they are.

Finally, why US National Park advisors make sequoias look like ‘giant baked potatoes’.

Suzanne Hopkinson, Tree Frog Editor