Citing supply chain challenges, US lumber dealers call for tariff relief and trade stability. In related news: Prime Minister Carney heads to Europe seeking deeper ties; while BC forest leaders say domestic costs are behind the sector’s crisis. Meanwhile: the City of Nanaimo takes raw-log export ban to the UBCM; Castlegar Mayor Maria McFaddin is the new head of Forestry Works for BC; and Canada’s inflation rate held steady at 3%.

In Wood Product news: SFI on the role of wood sourcing in lower-carbon buildings; researchers say building materials can reduce embodied carbon; Thompson Rivers University looks at fire-resilient housing; the University of Toronto opened its mass timber, zero-carbon building; and Clemson dedicated its new SYP mass timber forestry building.

In Forestry/Wildfire news: researchers say roadless US forests burn at the same rate as forests with roads; wildfire experts say competing strategies are hampering US risk reduction; scientists can detect bark-beetle forest stress before mortality is visible; the Roadless Rule repeal faces opposition in Illinois; and Ontario pledges better wildfire communication after criticism. Meanwhile: the BC Community Forestry Association released its 2026 Indicators Report, while BC announced their plan to expand the program.

Finally: BC’s Working Forest Landscape Model’s first candidate area is near Campbell River.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog News Editor