As lumber prices pull back from from their record highs, inflation concerns ease. In related news: home builders juggle intense demand; material shortage puts some projects on hold; and log prices begin to match housing demand. Meanwhile: Canada wants Biden to refund duty monies; Anthony Timberlands’ record 2020; mass timber reaches new heights in Canada; and Australia seeks world-scale forestry R&D centre. 

In Forestry/Climate news: celebrities lend their name to BC’s old-growth campaign; First Nations/ENGO tensions laid bare at Fairy Creek; The Last Loggers—a new book on growing up in a BC logging family; time to compromise on Alaska’s Roadless Rule; forest use is driving reforestation in the US South; and the UK timber industry wants embodied carbon regulated.

Finally, Summer arrived, followed by dry forests, wildfires and evacuations.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor