Expansion of Fairy Creek blockades angers loggers, results in tense altercation, reports of injury and threats. In related news: more on BC’s old-growth from the Narwhal and National Observer; Oregon judge rejects ENGO attempt to stop post-fire logging, hazard tree logging gets push-back in Maine; and Australia’s fire salvage operations come to an end. 

In Company news: Catalyst restarts its Powell River paper machine; Northern Pulp proposes new plan to restart idled mill; and strong Q1 results reported by Western Forest Products, while Acadian Timber and Cascades Inc. record reduced sales. In other Business news: market updates from Canada’s CMHC, the US-based ABC; and New Zealand’s Dennis Neilson; New Zealand log exports to China hit new record, and Vietnam is now the largest furniture exporter to the US.

Finally, orange juice waste can help make transparent wood 100% renewable.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor