Today (Monaday) is a public holiday in Canada. The Tree Frog News team will be baking on Tuesday with your full dose of forestry news and insight.

Kelly, Sandy, Heidi and Suzi

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President Trump escalated his trade war with Canada, upping tariffs on imports not covered by the USMCA free trade agreement. In related news: Prime Minister Carney expressed disappointment, US markets tumbled; Canadian premiers want lumber on the table; Russ Taylor and David Elstone set the record straight (again); Brian Menzies says tariffs are a ‘lose-lose’ game; and a US appeals court questions Trump’s legal basis. Meanwhile: RYAM explores aviation fuels; and Canfor, Mercer and International Paper report their Q2 earnings.

In Forestry news: Alberta’s Jason Krips says we need to rethink forest management in our national parks; Western Forest Products and ‘Namgis First Nation have a forest landscape plan; and the Wood Pellet Association of Canada has a new Associate Executive Director. South of the 49th, the USDA invests $106M in working forests; Alaska timber companies are hit by China’s log import ban; ENGOs sue to stop logging in Montana; and Portland’s Forest Museum gets a tourism boost. In Safety news: the Nebraska wood pellet plant fire was a dust explosion.

Finally, WFCA’s John Betts sees a cascading concatenation of consequences creating a congeries of collapsed trees. …Ok.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog News Editor