A diverse selection of Earth Day announcements from the Earth Day Network; BC’s Environment Minister; the Center for Sustainable Palm Oil; and the Michigan Tree Farm Program. Meanwhile: activists wait for police to clear old-growth logging blockades in BC; and warm weather begets wildfire stories from Vancouver Island; Oregon; Colorado; California; and Montana/Idaho.

In other news: US builders are using escalation clauses to cope with rising lumber prices;  analysts say it’s the perfect storm of strong demand, slow supply, a decade of underbuilding and Covid-19. Elsewhere: Canada’s pulp and paper unions team up for labour talks; fire destroys four (under-construction) 6-storey wood-frame buildings in Langley BC; and a market update from the Softwood Lumber Board.

Finally, protecting the Pacific fisher, the red-cockaded woodpecker, and the Kermode bear.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor