A Sierra Club report calls for BC’s old-growth forests to be returned to 30% of their original level. In related BC news: ENGO’s call for more old-growth protection; second growth forests are not as fire resistant as old growth; and today is the deadline for input on BC’s forest policy review. Elsewhere: a fresh approach to the spruce budworm is working in New Brunswick; Saskatchewan foresters join Quebec to fight the budworm; and private investors team up with the Nature Conservancy to protect Appalachian forests.

In other news: lumber and plywood lead price decline in residential construction; Western Forest Products strike enters third week without agreement on a mediator; a Montana perspective on BC’s mill closures; national efforts taken to stop US firefighter suicides; and China’s GHG emissions are up more than 50% in the last ten years.

Finally, the latest viral online craze involves… stapling bread to trees. Sorry!

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor