Even though it’s September, warm temperatures have British Columbia and Oregon officials urging vigilance with forest fires. In related news: three recent fires are among California’s largest ever, but Northeast Ontario’s season is relatively quiet.

In Business news: a hog fuel fire at Tolko’s Merritt mill; Domtar urges gov’t to support the Huron Central Railway; some optimism for Ontario’s Kenora sawmill; and the spike in lumber prices has some Texas homebuilders halting construction. In Forestry news: logging protest updates from Vancouver Island, Nova Scotia, and Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.

Finally, the most macabre of sciences asks if trees can be indicators of human decomposition.

The frogs are off for the Labour Day long weekend. Back Tuesday!

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor