65 million Americans are under heat alerts as the life-threatening heat dome continues for second week. In related news: the USDA says fuel treatments reduce wildfire severity; extreme wildfire risk has doubled in the US; a Michigan professor promotes climate-smart forestry; Southeast Oregon expects its fire risk to worsen; and BC Indigenous leaders promote cultural burns. Meanwhile: BC’s Thompson Rivers University is looking to hire wildfire experts; and more calls for a delay in the EU’s deforestation regulation.

In other news: a New Hampshire sawmill is destroyed by fire; Kruger’s Corner Brook mill failed to inspect its boiler system; BC seeks fibre for shuttered Aspen Planer mill; Powell River Community Forest sets timber harvest record; the Southern Forest Products Association announced its 2023 Sawmill Award winners; and registration is now open for the Global Wood Summit 2024.

Finally, Canada’s inflation rose 2.9% in May, casting doubt on a July rate cut.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor