ProBuilder Magazine’s annual Housing Giants list shows that consolidation remains key to company growth. In related news: US mortgage applications decline; US rail volume declines are slowing; and home buying activity is proving resilient. In Company news: Taiga Building Products appoints Co-CEO; Universal Forest Products Georgia plant catches fire; and the future of Quesnel’s C&C Wood Products is in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ hands.

In other news: Canadian innovators rise to the COVID-challenge; New Zealand Forest Owners push back on gov’t bill for more in-country processing; family forests can help the US combat climate change; Australia debates the risk of logging fire-damaged forests; and Brazil leads the globe on forest loss.

Finally, these Canadian species are found nowhere else on earth!

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor