BC’s Professional Reliance Report is equated to the old and costly Forest Practices Code, in a story in Business in Vancouver, and “may send a chill up the collective spine of all resource industries.” In other Business news: the decision to end duties on Canadian glossy paper nets millions for one US competitor; and how should the US retaliate against Canada for screwing its own citizens with dairy tariffs? By screwing US citizens with softwood tariffs of course!

Forestry headlines include: forest fire flair-ups in northeastern Ontario, Colorado and California; and opposition to logging in BC’s Skagit Valley; and the Columbia River Gorge.

Finally, a California study says grasslands are more reliable carbon sinks than trees; and—after years of debate—Maine lawmakers decide that forest rangers can carry firearms.

–Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor