The New York Times has a feature story on Iceland’s challenge to regrow its forests, which “the Vikings razed more than a thousand years ago“. In other forestry news: 

• [A Mock] Funeral for forests stretches along Halifax streets
• Questions are being raised about logging in Nelson’s water supply
• The BC Forest Discovery Centre is about to get a whole lot bigger!
• Logged tropical rainforests still support biodiversity 
• FSC supports a NAFTA chapter on rights of Indigenous Peoples

In Business news: a confluence of disasters is giving the US construction industry a strong dose of inflation; forestry stocks are forecast to trend upwards; Canfor’s Southern Pine operation will add a second shift; Northern Pulp would like a “do over” on protecting the view scape, and Asia Pacific Resources halts operations as its forestry permit is revoked.

Finally, more to-and-fro on the Greenpeace/Resolute front as Alberta MP Warkentin “excoriates the environmental group” while the San Fran Weekly profiles Greenpeace’s “call for support“.

— Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor