Second quarter sales and earnings reported by West Fraser and PotlatchDeltic bolstered by strong solid wood prices. In other Business news: Kalesnikoff Timber shows off its new CLT plant, Fast + Epp completes its new mass timber headquarters; Corner Brook, Newfoundland has a new Centre for Forest Research and Innovation; and the Retail Hardware Association names its Top Guns Award winners.

In Forestry/Climate news: BC’s wet summer prompts slow fire season; fuel buildup puts Arizona communities at risk; a U of New Hampshire study improves drones ability to identify tree crowns; and an ENGO study on UK support for wood biomass is called “incredibly leading“. 

Finally, a new study says millennia trees have tricks to stay youthful but there’s no immortality.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor