A New Brunswick judge signaled that private forest land is off the table in Wolastoqey Nation title claim. In related news: Premier Eby says BC’s economic fast-track plan won’t trample indigenous interests; and Idaho Senators came out against US public land-sale provision. Meanwhile: a new study says private reforestation in the US South is profitable; Weyerhaeuser invests in Arkansas’ small-tree forests; how robots are talking Canada’s prefab-housing to the next level; and Phoenix authorizes 18-storey mass timber buildings. 

In Forestry/Wildfire news: why Canada’s wildfire smoke is tormenting Minnesotans; Ontario has a water bomber pilot shortage; Coulson Aviation brings night-vision technology to firefighting; the hidden impact of clear-cut logging in BC; gutting the US Forest Service will cause irreparable damage; and the EU biomass satellite reveals its striking first images of forests and more.

Finally, the dangerous bully doing the most harm to our ecosystem and wildlife.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog News Editor