Tensions cool over the still-flowing Boat Harbour effluent, while workers brace for life after Northern Pulp, and changes to Nova Scotia’s forestry practices loom. In other Business news: BC’s cabinet shuffle cools election expectations; Pinnacle christen’s the New Pinnacle transport ship; and a fire at Allegheny Wood Products’ Marble, Pennsylvania plant adds to the company’s layoffs.
In other news: perspectives on the future of BC forestry by Otto Schulte and Herb Hammond; UK architects see timber as the new concrete; New Zealand’s wood-procurement policy gets political; a US study says climate change puts fungal diversity at risk; and the California tech industry has been slow to help predict weather-related disasters.
Finally, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics’ cardboard beds will be reused as paper products.
Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor