The Government of Canada announced $89M for GHG reduction projects and biodiversity protection in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. In related news: Minister Guilbeault battles Quebec over caribou habitat; BC’s latest old-growth conservation is mostly second-growth; BC reduces Slocan Valley and Arrow Lake harvest levels; and wildfire updates from BC, Labrador and Oregon.

In Business news: Steelworkers call on Ontario Premier to save the AV Terrace Bay pulp mill; Weyerhaeuser to shut down its New Bern, South Carolina sawmill; and a fire hits Baillie Lumber’s hardwood mill in Missouri. Meanwhile: US remodeling holds steady as spending firms up; the US Conference Board is less negative and US mortgage rates tick down.

Finally, a new study says more than 1 trillion microbes live inside the average tree trunk.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor