A stretch of boreal forest along the Manitoba-Ontario boundary has won international recognition as  a UNESCO world heritage site. Other Forestry headlines include:

• The new normal: wildfires roar across the west again (New York Times)
• Forest Service firefighting not aggressive enough (Vicki Christiansen)
• Report calls for major fixes to oversight of BC’s natural resource sector (CBC)
• Port Alberni sees decline in lumber, increase in raw log exports (Port Authority)
• If an old-growth tree falls in a forest, does it make political hay? (Times-Colonist)
• Forests may lose ability to protect against extremes of climate change (U of Montana)

Have Trump’s tariffs caused lumber prices to surge? Are they a mortal threat to US housing recovery? The LBM Journal says: 1) that ain’t necessarily so, and 2) that’s hogwash. 

Finally, judging by the outcome of meetings on proposed US code changes, it’s likely we’ll see more and taller mass timber buildings soon. 

–Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor