Tolko Industries will restart its curtailed BC mills in Armstrong and Soda Creek next week. In other Business news: Mercer secures major mass timber contract; Enviva updates plans for new pellet production; and Drax launches a new global foundation. Meanwhile: US construction spending edges down, as other homebuilding materials fail to follow lumber’s price decline.
In Forestry/Climate news: two studies—one US and one Canadian—point to threatened ecosystems; Colorado releases its forest health report; Minnesota looks to biochar to reduced emissions; Vermont conservationist seek more forest protection; and the University of Toronto’s carbon offsets are called a waste of time.
Finally, drone footage show swaths of New Zealand’s forests obliterated by cyclone.
Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor