Globe and Mail commentators and FPAC’s Board Chair outline a structural reset for Canada’s forest sector. In related news: BC’s budget includes forestry measures but fails to mention “path to 45 initiative“; Canfor announces asset write-down; Weyerhaeuser employs natural gas logging trucks; Drax faces scrutiny over wood pellet sources; Domtar installs new tissue line in Tennessee; and Alabama-based Southern Parallel Forest Products is set to close. Meanwhile: Canada invests in Quebec’s Cecebois; and US homebuilders elect new board leadership. 

In Forestry/Wildfire news: new research findings report that forest loss can make watersheds leakier; wildfires can be leveraged to increase forest resilience; bird diversity hotspots face threats from high-severity wildfires; and the US Roadless rule repeal increases risk of more fires. Meanwhile: FPAC opens awards for Innovation in Forestry;  and the Tongass Forest Plan is open for public comment.

Finally, the US environment agency is sued over scrapping rule behind climate protections.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog News Editor