The impact of protectionist trade policies [proposed on pulp] will hurt Americans most because it will “drastically raise the price of newsprint and threaten jobs in the newspaper industry“, according to the editorial board of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. NAHB economist Paul Emrath—writing in Builder Online—says lumber is a case in point. “What comes as a near-term win for a finite number of US producers could actually come back around to haunt them.” Meanwhile, the CBC reports that President Trump continues to defend his protectionist policies with “questionable statistics about international trade“.

In Forestry news: the New York Times editorial board calls Trump’s move on national monuments “the looting of America’s public lands“; an Arizona professor says “to live better with fire, we need to adapt to fire“; BC mayors educate the Premier on their fibre needs; central Canada is being ravaged by the emerald ash borer; and Ontario takes action to save Lake Superior caribou.

Finally, Norway is about to become home to the world’s tallest timber building at 81 meters, 28 meters taller that Vancouver’s Brock Commons.

— Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor