Green Party leader Elizabeth May says Nova Scotia should shutter the Northern Pulp mill. In other Business news: China’s slowing growth cuts into softwood demand; last week’s winter weather cast a pall over North American demand; Conifer reaches tentative deal with United Steelworkers; Domtar and Unifor reach agreement on retirement packages at Ear Falls; and the bidding process for Fort Frances mill gets nasty.

In Forestry news: FPAC’s Derek Nighbor on the changing face of the workforce; fire ecologist Robert Gray on how to make BC’s forest fires less damaging; and Dr. Tom Pugh (U of Birmingham) on why young forests—rather than tropical rainforests—are the world’s biggest terrestrial carbon sinks.

Finally, stories on: tall wood manufacturing in Washington and Australia; tall wood construction in BC and Texas, extraordinary prefab houses around the world. 

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor