NRCan’s Jonathan Wilkinson released Canada’s Green Building Strategy—to transform Canada’s building sector. The Forest Product Association of Canada’s Derek Nighbor welcomes Canada’s strategy—notes room for improvement. In related news: Simon Fraser University looks to mass timber for housing; Mercer will supply timbers for Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library; and the latest on BC Wood’s Global Buyers Mission.

In Forestry news: Ottawa’s caribou plan will cut 4.1% of Quebec’s ‘forestry land’; Weyerhaeuser’s herbicide spraying to be closely monitored; Minnesota looks to employ Indigenous forest knowledge; and prescribed burning said to enhance Nevada and California’s forest resilience. In Wildfire news: Oregon’s governor declares state-wide state of emergency; BC First Nation issues evacuation order near Spences Bridge; and Ontario firefighters are sent to assist in BC and Alberta.

Finally, California’s wildfires are burning far more land so far this year than in 2023.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor