Builder, remodeller and dealer confidence levels rally as US housing starts and Canadian sales continue to rise. Companies in the news include: Corner Brook Pulp and Paper (paper machine fire); Proctor & Gamble (climate campaign); Georgia Pacific Warrenton, VA plant (4 covid cases); and SmartLam Columbia Falls, MT (new CLT plant opening). 

In Forestry/Climate news: BC announces funding for caribou habitat restoration; Bruce Blackwell defends Whistler’s approach to fire mitigation; Ontario works to keep fatal wildlife disease at bay; a study says ethical labels fail to change corporate conduct; Brazil takes action to preserve Amazon forests; and climate change is blamed for Siberian wildfires. 

Finally, researchers find the further they go, the stronger mountain pine beetle’s signal gets.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor