Lumber prices rebounded last week as clarity remains elusive on sales and prices. In other Business news: Resolute reports improved Q4 and full-year earnings; a cooperative looks to purchase Verso’s Wisconsin pulp mill; Simpwc First Nation pursues a waste-to-energy mill for Vavenby, BC; a biomass-based diesel plant is being constructed in Port Arthur, Texas; and updates on US homeowner vacancy rates and sources of financing for new homes.

In other news: ENGO’s calls BC’s old-growth protection ‘misleading‘; Biden urged to protect non-native species at risk; and tree hunters find tallest sugar pines in the world. Meanwhile: FPInnovations says the future is wood; and robot logging trucks are coming to Northern Ontario.

Finally, BC’s Minister of Forests keynotes foresters’ AGM, and an update on the Montreal Wood Convention.

 Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor