Steelworkers and Western Forest Products remain at loggerheads as Premier Horgan and local residents express displeasure about the lack of progress on BC’s forestry strike. Companies in the news include: RY Timber closing its Townsend, Montana mill; fire hits Collins’ mill in Klamath Falls, Oregon; and Nova Scotia’s Port Hawkesbury Paper power rate hearings are set to begin.

In other news: National Geographic has a feature on the future of tall-wood; NRCan on how much biomass can be safely removed from forests; Australia warns of toxic smoke despite cooler weather; and Bloomberg expects the housing upswing to cushion the US economy.

Finally, the secret of 1000-year-old ginkgo trees revealed.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor