Lumber sales remain flat despite steady improvement in the US housing market. In related US news: custom home construction trends lower; commercial and multifamily starts vary by city, and previously owned homes sales reach a five-month high. 

In other Business news: Home Depot and Lowe’s buoyed despite low lumber prices; Fort Frances lobbies for Resolute’s wood supply; Fort St. James, BC extends financial crisis; and resilience key to surviving BC’s forest sector downturn.

In Forestry news: Canada’s newest national park; BC’s mule dear winter range enhancement; Oregon’s conifer drought damage; California’s slow start to the wildfire season; and record wildfires in the Amazon.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor