Lumber consumption continues to exceed forecasts despite drop in residential and nonresidential construction spending. In related news: Resolute hopes to reopen idled El Dorado mill; Boise Cascade reports positive earnings; and supply shortages a concern for Wisconsin builders.

In Wood Product news: stories on the value of old barns and bent wood; and mass timber innovation comes to Washington state, UK, and Australia. Meanwhile: the US seeks limits on habitat for species-at-risk; Covid-19 is blamed for a rise in Oregon’s human-caused wildfires; and thousands remain evacuated due to a Southern California wildfire.

Finally, the most sasquatch sightings per capita, and wood coffins at your farmers market!

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor