The US $50 billion, 10-year plan aims to improve forest resilience in the “woodland urban interface“. In related news: how scrap-wood use can help curb carbon and wildfire; the upside to genomics-based assisted migration; EU wooden-structured telecommunication towers; and First Nations eye carbon credits despite some noted pitfalls.

In Business/Market news: the BC Natural Resources Forum kicked off with the recurring theme of investor uncertainty—despite record prices, production and profits; and homebuilder confidence drops as material prices and inflation rise. Company headlines include: Northern Pulp (mill restart challenges); Roseburg (new COO); and Cascades (sustainability ranking).

Finally, northwest forests provide a breeding ground for sci-fi tale about alien invasion.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor