The Russia-Ukraine war begets more divestures (Mondi) and trade flow changes for pulp & paper and lumber. In other Business news: Prince Albert Pulp is one step closer to restarting; and more Q1, 2022 financials from Western Forest Products; Resolute, Acadian Timber, Enviva, and Rayonier Inc.
In Forestry/Climate news: Biden declares disaster in New Mexico wildfire zone; Washington state brings back prescribed burns; BC’s emergency alert system to include wildfires; last summer’s heat wave was among most extreme recorded; wildfires challenge forest-based carbon offsets; and the financial challenge of fire and flood management.
Finally, group launches ‘Clear the Road‘ campaign against old-growth blockaders.
Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor
Ufastroysnab was founded in 2010 as a producer of green and dried lumber, including wall lining and moldings. In Udmurtia, the company has logging operations, it has its own allowable cutting area of 5 thousand hectares in this region. In Bashkiria, Ufastroysnab buys timber from local loggers. …The company produces both raw and dry tongue-and-groove lumber. The sawmill in Udmurtia has installed lines for the production of wood pellets and Pini-kay briquettes with a capacity of 50 tons per month. …Ufastroysnab is also a wholesale trader. Company distributes the products of sawmills from Bashkiria, Udmurtia, the Perm Territory and the Penza Region. The product portfolio includes green and dried lumber, deck and terrace boards, planken and etc. …The main export markets are Uzbekistan, Iran and Turkey.
VANCOUVER, BC
In response to growing consumer demand for environmentally-responsible products and services, corporations across all industries have placed implementing sustainable practices at the top of their agendas. As of 2021, more than 
Washington recently became the first state to require all electric heat for new buildings. Under the state’s new energy code, most new commercial and large multifamily buildings will have to install heat pumps. The 
The volunteer group Save Our Forests Team Comox Valley (SOFT-CV) appeared before Comox council on April 20 to ask Council for a new and strengthened tree bylaw and the retention and purchase of remaining forested areas in Comox. SOFT noted Comox’s tree bylaw was adopted in 1994 and hasn’t been updated since 2010, despite increased public concern with climate change and community livability. …SOFT asked council for strong protection of ecosystems and standing trees in the northeast Comox and Hector/Aspen area, retaining at least 30 per cent of the existing forest and purchasing other remaining forested areas. …The group also asked council why Comox didn’t acquire significant parcels of land when they were recently for sale at affordable prices. …SOFT would like Comox to purchase key remaining wooded parcels in the Hector area to protect these urban forests.
It is long past time for the Nova Scotia government to take the proverbial bull by the horns and deal decisively with the deeply-embedded conflict of interest within the Department of Natural Resources and Renewables (DNRR). This conflict, of course, is between the department’s unabashed priority on forestry resource development and exploitation and its responsibilities for Crown land management and biodiversity protection. DNRR’s steadfast promotion of forestry as the predominant use of Crown lands not only lays bare the fundamental conflict within the department’s mandate but also flies in the face of the interests and expectations of Nova Scotians regarding the responsible stewardship of our publicly-owned natural assets. Persistent public criticism and pressure for reform led to two government-initiated arm’s-length reviews… The outcomes, the 2011 natural resources strategy and the 2018 independent review of forest practices (the Lahey report), generally were well-received, with recommendations advanced accepted by government.
SPRINGDALE, Wash. — On Tuesday, the Washington state Department of Natural Resources burned 108 acres between Springdale and Loon Lake in Stevens County. It’s just the second time the department has done a prescribed burn since 2004, and it marks the beginning of a dramatic shift in how the state manages public lands. Eastern Washington is going to see more prescribed burns in the coming years. “We’d like to see a lot more — hundreds of thousands of acres,” said Kate Williams, the Department of Natural Resource’s acting prescribed fire program manager. For 18 years, Washington hasn’t burned state lands on purpose. New smoke policies aimed at protecting air quality were part of the reason for the prescribed fire shutdown, Williams said. An uptick in wildfires was a big factor, too.
As companies face increasing public pressure to limit their climate impact, the global market for forest carbon “credits,” is booming. …But scientists are increasingly focused on a new concern: climate change itself. With trees dying around the globe from droughts, heat waves, pest invasions, and wildfires. …“Climate change already poses substantial risks to forest carbon, and those risks will go up dramatically in the 21st century,” says Bill Anderegg, a forest ecologist at the University of Utah. “Forest offset protocols have not thoroughly grappled with those risks.” …Microsoft was more rigorous than most. So was Green Diamond, and a California state agency vetted the forest carbon credits it sold. …A 
The B.C. government is expanding the use of push notifications to cellular phones during emergencies to also include floods and wildfires. The Alert Ready system was previously used only for tsunami warnings, Amber Alerts and very rare police incidents. The provincial government faced fierce criticism in November for not using the system during the atmospheric river and following floods. “The frequency of threats our communities are facing is increasing due to factors such as climate change, and this expansion of the Alert Ready system in B.C. will ensure we have every tool at our disposal to support public safety,” said Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General. …The wireless alert system is ready to be deployed for flooding and will be expanded again for wildfire threats in June.
LAS VEGAS, New Mexico — Firefighters slowed the advance of the largest wildfire in the U.S. as heavy winds relented Wednesday, while President Joe Biden approved a disaster declaration that brings new financial resources to remote stretches of New Mexico devastated by fire since early April. U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez announced the presidential disaster declaration during an evening briefing by the U.S. Forest Service about efforts to contain the sprawling wildfire in northeastern New Mexico, which has fanned out across 250 square miles of high alpine forest and grasslands at the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains. …An estimated 15,500 homes in outlying areas and in the valleys of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains that border Las Vegas have been affected by mandatory evacuations. The tally of homes destroyed by the fire stands around 170.