Celebrating National Forest Week in Canada includes celebrating wood architecture. In related news: BC influences wood design and use in India; and US developers turn to wood despite complaints by the concrete industry. In other commemorations: BC salutes 100 years of forest research; the Orange Shirt Society and Tolko Industries support Indigenous reconciliation; and Arkansas’ tops forester selected to lead the National Assoc. of State Foresters.

In Forestry/Climate news: three First Nations file suit against the Ontario gov’t; wildfires throw a harsh light on Arizona’s forest management; who/what’s to blame for the US West wildfires; forest margins may be resilient to climate change; and the EU’s new climate plan is panned by forest owners.

Finally, energy efficiency of new homes reduces the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor