Structurlam Mass Timber Corp. will build its first US plant in Conway, Arkansas—and Walmart’s new headquarters will be the first customer. In labour news: Western Forest Products CEO asks Premier Horgan to intervene, as retired MLA/labour rep. pans  WFP’s negotiating approach; EACOM ratifies six-year agreement in Timmins; and a worker is injured at Resolute’s Thunder Bay sawmill.

On the executive front: David Elstone resigns from the Truck Loggers Association; Mike Birkeland will lead Minnisota’s forest industry; Oregon State University names Tom Deluca as dean for the College of Forestry; and the Canadian Institute of Forestry appoints Mark Pearson as executive director.

Finally, a St. Francis Xavier ecologist myth busts Northern Pulp effluent pollution.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor