HGTV personality Mike Homes makes the case for the use of engineered wood (in the National Post), while Australia’s Lendlease Group provides a first look inside the world’s largest engineered timber office building (by gross floor area).

Companies in the news include: Mercer delisting from the Toronto Stock Exchange; EACOM appoints Wade Zammit as VP and COO; Catalyst Paper sells its US mills to a Chinese paper group; and Port Hawkesbury Paper’s stumpage rates are panned.

Elsewhere: BC Minister Donaldson plans to grow BC’s Community Forests; the Ancient Forest Alliance is targeting Port Alberni forests; BC First Nations struggle with development/protection tradeoffs; and fires are a burning in or near Kananaskis; Kamloops; Calgary; Fort St. John; as well as in New Mexico and Norway.

Finally, our condolences to the family, friends and co-workers of William Pye, a sawmill employee with Rayonier Advanced Materials (Tembec) in Chapleau, Ontario, who died in an accident Friday.

–Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor