Ontario’s recent cabinet shuffle merges natural resources, forestry, and mining with northern development. In other Business news: Doman completes its acquisition of Fontana Lumber; and Western Forest Products receives an expropriation notice for its curtailed Somass Sawmill lands. Meanwhile:  lumber prices continue their downward trend, housing’s prolonged underbuild keeps housing prices high; and BC Wood launches its 2021 export training program.

In Forestry/Climate news: celebrities and Vogue add visibility to BC’s old-growth protests; climate activists  disrupt the loading of logs in Nanaimo; New Brunswick launches hearings on pesticide use; wildfires cause havoc in Southern BC and Oregon; and drought conditions have the Amazon bracing for a terrible fire season.

Finally, a Nova Scotia logrolling champion teaches his crow how to logroll. 

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor