The US-based Natural Resources Defense Council says Canada is failing to measure carbon emissions from clear-cutting in the boreal forest and needs to “live up to its rhetoric“. In response, FPAC and the Ontario government say the NRDC doesn’t account for carbon stored in wood products and “forestry can help mitigate the effects of climate change“. 

The US forest/fire debate continues with claims that Senator Daines’ wildfire survey  is “over-simplified and politically skewed“. Related headlines include: Logging isn’t the right response to forest fires; After decades of fire suppression US forests were ready to burn; and Senator Tester asks the Forest Service to let fire scientists attend [a climate change] conference.

“No one seems to be interested in forestry policy any more” (in Campbell River), according to William Wagner RFP, although the future of forests and forestry on Vancouver Island will be the focus of an upcoming six-city ENGO tour.

In Business news, New Brunswick sawmills say they are unfairly singled out, the extent of Tolko’s mill fire is becoming apparent [not good], and a fire destroyed the Libby lumber mill in Montana.

— Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor