Friday’s Frog

Lumber demand is so strong, Resolute’s order book exceeds its inventory, says CEO Remi Lalonde. In related news: Weyerhaeuser reports strong Q1, 2021 results; and USA Today and the National Association of Home Builders fact check claims of who’s to blame for the spike in lumber prices. In other Business news: CLT plant set to break ground in Ontario; pulp markets help Canfor Pulp’s Q1 numbers; and a Calgary First Nations consortium partners with Peak Renwables and Smartlam.

In Forestry news: Canada’s tree-planting pledge still sparse on details; BC old-growth activists appeal injunction against blockades; lessons from Fort McMurray, Alberta five-years after the fires; and a California bill seeks to lump boreal with tropical forest losses.

Finally, a blast from the past—The Water Dwellers, a 1963 National Film Board movie.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor