After a promising start to the wildfire season, Oregon (Columbia River Gorge) joins California (Los Angeles National Forest), Colorado (Poudre Canyon) and Ontario (Red Lake) with evacuation orders. In related news: a lack of fires hampers trials for Canada’s first night-time chopper; while California hosts a Women in Wildfire Training Camp. Meanwhile: two years after Nova Scotia’s Lahey Report, ENGOs say little has changed; and FPInnovations puts its 50 years of forest products research online.
In Business news: record lumber prices are good news for BC’s industry; lumber sales remain strong but pace slows; Mercer International makes opening bid for bankrupt Klausner Lumber; Teal Jones faces logging protests; and Seneca Hardwood’s Pennsylvania mill is destroyed by fire.
Finally, Rolling Stone Chuck Leavell’s new film opens at the Grand Opera House.
Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor