Climate and wildfire – the headlines speak for themselves:
- The California wildfire is a disaster that’s anything but natural
- Why the North American west is on fire (The Economist)
- The awful math that makes fighting wildfires more expensive every year
- Arctic on Fire
- There’s a way to reduce the wildfire toll. We won’t like it
- BC government urged to act now to prevent firestorm in 2018
On the First Nations front: the Driftpile Cree Nation will operate part of Tolko’s High Prairie OSB plant; the Lac Seul First Nation is looking to expand into value-added wood manufacturing in Ontario, The BC Assembly of First Nations elected professional forester Terry Teegee as Regional Chief; and Coast Forest spokesman Rick Jeffery speaks about on the “path to reconciliation” and how the coastal forest industry is increasing participation of Indigenous peoples.
Finally, the future of mass timber is nearly unlimited and sexy, unless you’re from the concrete industry and then it’s “unsafe”.
Are you superstitious – it’s Friday the 13th.
— Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor