On the coattails of signing of the Great American Outdoors Act, the US considers relief for Covid-19 impacted logging communities, and a bill to increase forest management and reduce litigation is introduced (to the dismay of some). Companies in the news include: Cascades (Q2 earnings); West Fraser (new heat exchangers); Freres Lumber (PPP loan); Verso (mill closure); and Enviva (pellet plant purchase).

In other news: BC will fund a wildfire chair position at Thompson Rivers University; EPA’s cost-benefit analyses are are a path to better forestry; Europe’s forests face growing pest threat; and illegal logging is on the rise in Brazil.

Finally, the Olympic athletes of the carbon world are… the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor