Unifor selected Domtar as the target company in eastern Canada for the upcoming round of bargaining. In related news: support for BC workers ramps up after Crofton and Chemainus mill curtailments; tariffs mean boom and bust for Maine sawmillers; and Kentucky’s hardwood industry is at risk of collapse. Meanwhile: Canada and China renew cooperation on wood construction; Michigan jump-starts 9 mass timber projects, wood windows are returning to high-end residential architecture; and the US Lumber Coalition says lumber prices are not a factor in housing affordability.

In Forestry/Climate news: the Canadian Tree Nursery Association sounds alarm over seedling shortage; Indigenous leaders make their voices heard in BC and Washington; a GOP rep pans Washington state’s barred owl-kill plan; warming enhances soil carbon accumulation in boreal peatlands; NASA confirms northward shift of boreal forests; and more on BC’s forest management report by columnist Tom Fletcher, and ENGO Wildsight.

Finally, Norway spruce trees may not have been anticipating a solar eclipse after all.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog News Editor