The Gorman Group buys Weyerhaeuser’s lumber mill in Princeton, BC. In related news: Stora Enso sells 12% of its forest land; Homanit invests $250M in South Carolina; UBC’s Frank Lam and Western Forest Products work to expand hem-fir glulam; and West Fraser reduces its Alberta logging plan. Meanwhile: Ontario invests in forestry by-products; Derek Burney opines on US-Canada trade; Clemson’s Pat Layton receives SFI’s 2025 President’s Award; and Jimmy Bullock receives SFI’s Innovation and Leadership in Sustainability award.

In Forestry/Wildfire news: US ENGO’s take legal action to defend spotted owl habitat; an Olympic Peninsula tree-sitter continues his protest; Colorado’s Forest Tracker shows forests treated since 2,000; the USDA may deploy non-fire forest workers; Wildsight commends BC Timber Sales‘ caribou habitat promise; Alberta’s caribou conundrum; and the fight to save Saskatchewan’s forests.

Finally, how trees destroyed by the Los Angeles fires are being recycled into new lumber.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog News Editor