BC’s wildfire season is now the second-worst in history behind only last year, and the smoke plumes are reaching Ireland. Related headlines include:

• As wildfires rage, is it time to rethink how we manage forests? (BC, Ontario)
• Mayors want more funding for wildfire mitigation (BC)
• Failure to reform forest inventories simply invites more trouble (BC)
• Better forestry needed to avoid an age of bad air (East Oregon)
• More aggressive approach means more prescribed fires and thus smoke (Montana) 
• More prudent vegetation management proposed with climate-change cash (California)
• Wildfire sets off World War II ammunition buried in forest (Germany)

In other news: NAFTA breakthrough imminent; lumber prices still higher than normal; Nova Scotia tenure changes on hold; and court confirms Taan Forests’ right to hire local logging contractors.

Finally, Terra Nova National Park wants to protect stunted trees from hungry moose, and the Festival of Forestry tour kicks-off today (which is why the news is out so early).

–Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor