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March 9, 2018
Category: Today's Takeaway

Mass timber and CLT dominate today’s headlines. Specifically, as a means for: California to address its housing crisis; Louisiana to reshape its skyline; American builders to reduce their costs; and the Czech government to house their foresters. And supporting the trend is an international mass timber conference in Portland. Elsewhere, a Q&A on traditional wood-frame as it’s under the gun due to an apartment fire in Denver

In other news: a female woodland firefighter is named Interim USFS Chief, US steelmakers cheer tariffs, while Canada dodges the tariff bullet; conservationists say the deadly bat disease is coming to BC; and researchers at Wisconsin-Madison say florescent pink “is the new black” [for high-vis vests] because it’s more visible in Autumn.

Finally, ForestTECHX wraps up a successful Vancouver show. Click here for the Frog’s speaker highlights and pictures.

–Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor

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