Roseburg Forest Products will permanently close its Missoula, Montana particleboard plant. In related news: a call to action on the Seeley Lake mill closure; Mondi celebrates its Hinton pulp mill purchase; Tree Frog Veneer celebrates 20 years in Massachusetts; and mass timber showcases at Stirling Structural, Amazon Met Park, Clemson University and the University of Toronto. Meanwhile: FSC has a new US president; and previews of the  Montreal Wood Convention and the BC Log & Timber AGM.

In Forestry news: Canada’s Tree Seed Centre preserves genetic diversity; BC’s 2023 wildfire season caused ‘extreme glacier melt‘; dead trees present a fire hazard in BC’s Stanley Park and Ashland, Oregon’s watershed; and Arizona warns of explosive 2024 wildfire season. 

Finally, only you can prevent wildfires—Smokey Bear turns 80 this August.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor