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July 2026

Thursday, July 16, 2026 East Evans Creek Fire Nears 8,000 Acres as Washington Orders an Eastside Burn Ban · Juken Confirms Kaitaia Sawmill Will Close After Buyer Search Fails · Wildlife Agents Search Two Missouri Walnut Operations

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Canfor to Permanently Close Northwood Pulp Mill in Prince George · Fire Season Tightens From the BC Coast to Eastern Oregon · Kruger Details $700-Million Diversification for Corner Brook

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 British Columbia Opens the Value-Added Timber Program to Custom Cutters · Northeast BC Land Withdrawal Takes 45,000 Hectares Off the Table for a Decade · US Inflation Cools to 3.5 Percent as Energy Falls, Just Before Oil Turned

Monday, July 13, 2026 EPA Moves to Force Chemical Removal at the Shuttered Cosmopolis Pulp Mill · Western Forest Products Extends Cowichan Bay Curtailment Through September · Department of the Interior Narrows the Definition of Harm Under the Endangered Species Act

Friday, July 10, 2026 Quebec Puts $120 Million Behind Its Sawmills · Fraser Canyon Fires Double, Close Part of Highway 1 · Lumber Buyers Position for August's Duty Decision

Thursday, July 9, 2026 Lawmakers Push to Write Hardwood Lumber Into the China Framework · Mackenzie's July Restart Window Passes Without an Announcement · Coalition Sues to Halt the Forest Service Reorganization

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 Hood Closes Wiggins Plywood Mill for Good · Washington Sends Inspectors Into Its Two Other Kraft Mills · Tankers Hit in Hormuz; Oil Back Above $70

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 A 72-Year Veneer Producer Closes in Roseburg · Canada and BC Put Softwood Fixes on a December Deadline · A Federal Air Rule Takes Effect at 219 Wood-Products Plants

Monday, July 6, 2026 Fire Season Reaches the Northwest · China's Log Pull Shrinks Again · Component Supply Moves Onto the Main Line

Saturday, July 4, 2026 Conifex Brings Mackenzie Back Monday as Prices Firm · Fire Guts a Hardwood Mill in Ohio's Amish Country · America Turns 250, and the Harbor Fills With Masts

Friday, July 3, 2026 The U.S. Declines the CUSMA Extension, and the Long Countdown Begins · Fire Year Hits Preparedness Level 4 Going Into the Holiday Weekend · June Hiring Nearly Stalls at 57,000 Jobs; Dow Sets a Record Anyway

Thursday, July 2, 2026 Pella Hands the Window Maker to a New Chief Executive · Mercer Pulls a European Pulp Mill Offline for All of September · Construction Spending Flatlines as Factory Growth Cools

Wednesday, July 1, 2026 The First Joint Review of the North American Trade Deal Opens, With Softwood in Scope · Hardwood Industry Pools Money for a Unified Voice in Washington · QXO Closes TopBuild Deal, Expanding a Building-Products Distribution Giant

June 2026

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 Weyerhaeuser Lifts Its Lumber Price View, Trims Its Q2 Output Outlook · Containerboard Makers Push a Second Price Increase as Capacity Shrinks · Dow Tops 52,000 for the First Time as Alphabet Joins the Index

Monday, June 29, 2026 U.S. Sawmill Capacity Fell 6% Over the Past Year as Output Slipped Again · Construction Hiring Held Up in May Even as Homebuilding Cooled · England Moves to Cap Timber in Mid-Rise Buildings

Sunday, June 28, 2026 Deep Dive: The Half-Year Mark In Wood · Know Your Wood: Bigleaf Maple

Friday, June 26, 2026 A 117-Year-Old Washington Lumberyard Closes as Its Owner Retires · New-Home Sales Fell 7.3% in May as Affordability Bit · Deep Dive: The West Coast Private-Timber Squeeze

Thursday, June 25, 2026 Australian Manager Buys Its First Washington Forest as Carbon Money Crowds In · Forest Service Invokes Emergency Powers to Salvage Storm Timber Across Six Northern Forests · First-Quarter Growth Revised Up to 2.1% as Durable-Goods Orders Slide

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 House Clears Sweeping Housing-Supply Bill; Trump Halts the Signing · Cabinet Maker Breaks Ground on $20M Ontario Plant, Moving from Imports to Local Build · New-Home Sales Slid in May, With the West Down Sharply

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 Skanska Breaks Ground on One of the Largest All-Mass-Timber Healthcare Projects in the U.S. · Canada's Inflation Reaccelerates to 3.2% on Gasoline · Deep Dive: The White Oak Squeeze

Monday, June 22, 2026 Lumber Futures Hold an Eight-Month High While Canadian Mills Lose Money · Harvard Housing Study: New Building Shrinks, Renovation Carries the Demand · Deep Dive: The Import Paradox

Sunday, June 21, 2026 Lumber's Supply-Driven Rally · A Landmark Northwest Mass-Timber Project Broke Ground · Building-Material Costs Reaccelerated

Friday, June 19, 2026 Finnish Producer Lifts Sawmill Capacity Toward 600,000 m3 · Swedish Forestry Group Warns 2026 May Be Worse Than 2012 · EU Softwood Shipments to the US Collapsed in the First Quarter

Thursday, June 18, 2026 Fed Holds Rates but Signals a Possible Hike in Warsh's First Meeting · U.S. Softwood Log Exports Jump as Asian Buyers Outbid Canada · May Retail Sales Rise 0.9%, Nearly Double Expectations

Wednesday, June 17, 2026 Lumber Futures Reach an Eight-Month High as Supply Tightens · California Launches a Statewide Mass Timber Coalition · May Housing Starts Fall to a Six-Year Low on a Multifamily Plunge

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 Trade Panel Keeps the Duties on Chinese Mouldings and Millwork · Bipartisan Bill Would Steer Federal Buildings Toward Domestic Mass Timber · Builder Confidence Slips to 35 as Affordability Bites

Monday, June 15, 2026 BLM Draft Plan Would Roughly Quadruple Logging on Western Oregon's O&C Lands · Lumber Futures Reach an Eight-Month High on Tight Supply · U.S.-Iran Deal to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz Sends Crude to a Three-Month Low

Friday, June 12, 2026 Trump Says He Is 'Not Looking to Renew' CUSMA Three Weeks Before Its Review · Draft Plan Would More Than Triple Logging in Oregon's Blue Mountains · U.S. Wholesale Inflation Hits 6.5 Percent, the Hottest Since 2022

Thursday, June 11, 2026 Trade Court Presses Washington to Drop Its Tariff-Refund Appeal · Signal Workers Strike CPKC's Canadian Network · Iran Declares Hormuz Closed to All Vessels; First Fibre-Sector Profit Warning Lands

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Canfor Buys Western Canada's Largest I-Joist Maker for $68 Million · A 105-Meter Timber Roof Opens Over Vancouver's New Amphitheatre · U.S. Inflation Tops 4%; Bank of Canada Holds at 2.25%

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 Irving to Double a Maine Sawmill With $42 Million in State-Backed Financing · Oregon's New State Forester Starts With a 'Zero Tolerance' Message · California Fast-Tracks 400 Wildfire-Prevention Projects and a Five-Year Plan

Monday, June 8, 2026 Columbia Forest Products Buys Pennsylvania Pallet Maker, Widening Its Packaging Push · Builders FirstSource Adds a Boise-Area Trim Installer · Alabama Cabinet Maker Legacy Cabinets Shuts Down After Financing Falls Through

Sunday, June 7, 2026 Wall Street Sells Off as a Hot Jobs Report Lifts Yields · Crude Slides Toward $90 on Weak Chinese Demand · Deep Dive: Pressure-Treated Wood

Friday, June 5, 2026 May Payrolls Blow Past Forecasts as Unemployment Holds at 4.3% · U.S. Proposes 25% Tariff on Brazil, Naming Illegal Timber Among the Triggers · Interfor Restarts a Second Shift at Grand Forks, Against the Curtailment Tide

Thursday, June 4, 2026 Malheur National Forest Signs 20-Year Stewardship Agreement With Iron Triangle · Canada Commits Close to $130 Million to 56 Forest-Sector Projects · Services Activity Firms in May, but Input Costs Hit Their Hottest Since 2022

Wednesday, June 3, 2026 Labor Market Runs Firmer Than Expected as ADP and JOLTS Both Beat Ahead of Friday's Jobs Report · Canada's Fire Season Opens With a Costly Saskatchewan Blaze as Lumber Touches a Two-Month High · Black Walnut Holds Near Historic Highs as Export Buyers Compete for Veneer Logs

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 Canfor Sells Shuttered Fort St. John Sawmill to an Alberta Salvage Firm, Closing the Book on a Northern BC Mill · April Construction Spending Rises 0.4%; Single-Family Put-in-Place Climbs 1.4% Even as Sales and Starts Cooled · Factory Activity Firms: ISM Manufacturing Index Hits 54.0 in May, Highest Since 2022, With Input Prices Still Hot

Monday, June 1, 2026 MasterBrand Closes All-Stock Merger With American Woodmark; Combined Company Is North America's Largest Public-Company Cabinet Manufacturer · April New Single-Family Home Sales Fall 6.2% to 622,000 SAAR; Months' Supply Climbs to 9.4 · Pacific Forestry Centre Study: Only 17% of British Columbia Secondary Wood Manufacturers Are Fully Efficient

May 2026

Friday, May 29, 2026 Longview Death Toll Climbs to Eight; U.S. Chemical Safety Board Opens Federal Investigation · April PCE Reaccelerates to 3.8% Year over Year; Personal Spending Up 0.5% · Weyerhaeuser Convicted in Grande Prairie Worker Death; Ordered to Fund $355K Safety-Training Program

Thursday, May 28, 2026 April New-Home Sales Fall 6.2% to 622,000 Annualized as Single-Family Pulls Back · Q1 GDP Revised Down to 1.6% in BEA Second Estimate; Investment and Consumer Spending Cut · Longview Death Toll Climbs to Two; Governor Calls Tank Implosion 'Deadliest Industrial Tragedy in Modern Washington State History'

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 Longview White-Liquor Tank Implosion Kills One, Nine Still Missing at Nippon Dynawave · Robbins Lumber Searsmont Explosion Was Accidental, Started at Silo Unloader, Investigators Find · Fed Minutes Show Majority Open to Rate Hike if Iran Conflict Keeps Inflation Elevated; Four Dissents

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 Markets Reopen Higher on Iran-Deal Hopes Even as US Strikes Iranian Vessels · Freres Engineered Wood Pays $5.85 Million for 12.9 Million Board Feet on Western Oregon BLM Lands · Ottawa Commits $12.4 Million to Fourteen British Columbia Forest-Sector Projects

Friday, May 22, 2026 Housing Starts Ease in April While Permits Jump 5.8% · Oregon Appeals Court Revives Jewell School District's Timber-Revenue Suit · 30-Year Mortgage Rate Climbs to 6.51%

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 Federal Court Vacates BLM's Blue and Gold Harvest Plan in Douglas County · Commerce Reaffirms Steep Duties on Chinese Wood Mouldings and Millwork · Canfor's Vida Subsidiary to Permanently Close Two Swedish Sawmills

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 Searsmont Investigation Continues; Injury Count Rises to Twelve, 3 p.m. Briefing Today · 10-Year Treasury Closes at 4.62% Monday, Highest Since February 2025 · Conifex Mackenzie Sawmill Seven-Week Curtailment Begins Today

Monday, May 18, 2026 Searsmont, Maine Lumber Mill Explosion Kills Firefighter, 10 Hospitalized · NAHB/Wells Fargo HMI Rebounds Three Points to 37 in May · Maine Plywood USA Closes USDA TPEP Loan to Convert Bingham Sawmill

Friday, May 15, 2026 Canadian Producer Wrap Edition · Interfor Reports Q1 Net Loss of $63 Million as ASP Climbs to $666/mfbm · Conifex Draws $19 Million BDC Term Loan, Posts Negative $7.7 Million EBITDA

Thursday, May 14, 2026 Senate confirms Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair · Madison's Lumber Prices Index

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 BC Launches "Make More in BC" Hub Strategy at Gorman Brothers West Kelowna · US Lumber Coalition: Canadian Share Down to 19%, 8.6 BBF of US Capacity Added Since 2016 · April CPI Prints Hottest Since May 2023 at 3.8%, 10-Year Hits 4.46% on Demand Side

Monday, May 11, 2026 Doman Building Materials Posts $68M EBITDA on 17% Gross Margin Despite Soft Pricing · Trex Beats Consensus in First Full Quarter Under Zambanini · US Hardwood Lumber Production Down 29% Since 2022 as Mill Closures Accelerate

Friday, May 8, 2026 Mercer International Posts Q1 Net Loss of $52 Million as Fiber Costs Weigh · Spahn & Rose Lumber Names New Chief Executive After 122 Years · Washington DNR Cuts Timber Revenue Forecast as Riparian Rule Change Nears

Thursday, May 7, 2026 Canfor Posts $72M Q1 Net Loss but Narrows Sharply from Q4 · Louisiana-Pacific Beats Consensus by Wide Margin on Siding Strength · Western Forest Products Settles Columbia Vista Fire Claim at USD$28.8M

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 CBP Finds Coastal Forest Products Evaded Softwood Duties via New Zealand · Commerce Finalizes Sunset Review: Chinese Wood Mouldings & Millwork AD Order Continues · British Columbia Quietly Reduces Penalty for Exporting Unprocessed Logs

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 Tesla Semi Enters High-Volume Production, Launches Commercial Charging Program · Boise Cascade Q1 Revenue Beats Estimates Despite 6.8% Year-Over-Year Decline · Western Forest Products Installing Thermal Modification Kiln on Vancouver Island

Monday, May 4, 2026 Hardwood Plywood Trade Action Edition · Conifex to Curtail Mackenzie BC Sawmill Seven Weeks Starting May 19 · Bingaman & Son Lumber Commissions New Pennsylvania Hardwood Sorting Line with Comact AI Grader

Friday, May 1, 2026 April Equity Indexes Cap Best Month Since 2020; Crude Holds Near $105 on Hormuz Risk · Lumber Prices: Forecast Held, Q1 Tracked Tight · Housing: March Starts Beat the Forecast, April Sentiment Broke

April 2026

Thursday, April 30, 2026 Wood Products Earnings Edition · West Fraser Posts $188M Q1 Loss; Lumber Segment Carries $114M Duty Adjustment · U.S. Q1 GDP Prints 2.0%; March Core PCE Reaccelerates to 3.2%

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 Tariffs & Trade Enforcement Edition · Boise Cascade Pleads Guilty to Felony Lacey Act, Pays $6.382M · Canada Opens Safeguard Probe on Cabinets, Flooring, Storage Furniture

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 Mass Timber & Trade Edition · Insurance Bureau of Canada Brief Quantifies Mass Timber Premium · Trex CEO Transition Effective Today

Monday, April 27, 2026 Weyerhaeuser Q1 — Thursday April 30 release, Friday May 1 call (10:00 a.m. ET) · UFP Industries Q1 — Wednesday April 29 release, Thursday April 30 call (10:00 a.m. ET) · Builders FirstSource Q1 — Thursday April 30 (after close)

Friday, April 24, 2026 Southeast Pine Belt Edition · ■ DEEP DIVE: Southeast Pine Belt - Drought, Fire, and Pine Fiber at Risk

Thursday, April 23, 2026 Interfor Indefinitely Curtails Nairn Centre, Ontario · BLM Issues Decision on Four Upper Willamette Timber Sales · Metrie Acquires Door Assembly Assets Across Canada

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 QXO to Acquire TopBuild for $17 Billion in Cash-and-Stock Deal · International Paper to Buy NORPAC Containerboard Mill at Longview, WA for $360 Million

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 Distance, Route, and Hours-of-Service Math · Rates: Flatbed vs. Van, West Region vs. National, Portland-Outbound Premium · Fuel: California's $2 Premium, the $0.73 Flatbed Surcharge, and the EIA Reset

Monday, April 20, 2026 Canadian Forest Sector Task Force Delivers Final Report · West Fraser High Level OSB Wind-Down Concludes This Month

Friday, April 17, 2026 Western Forest Products Loads First Batches at New Chemainus Continuous Dry Kiln · Trex Names Adam Zambanini President and Chief Executive Officer Effective April 28 · Annandale Millwork Opens $11.5 Million Frogale Lumber Supply Facility in Newport News

Thursday, April 16, 2026 Canadian Softwood Producers Have Now Paid More Than US$8 Billion in Duties Since 2017 · Montana Forest Service Launches Sustained-Yield Unit Directing 35 Million Board Feet Per Year to Local Mills

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 Lumbra Hardwoods Closing Milo, Maine Sawmill End of April as Electricity Bill Doubles · Commerce Publishes Preliminary Seventh-Review Softwood Duty Results in the Federal Register

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 USDA Relocates U.S. Forest Service Headquarters to Salt Lake City, Consolidates Regions · British Columbia Passes Forests Statutes Amendment Act: BC Timber Sales Adds 800,000 m3, Doubles Value-Added Set-Aside

Monday, April 13, 2026 Iran Talks Collapse; Trump Announces Strait of Hormuz Blockade as Oil Surges Past $104 · March CPI: Gasoline Surges 21.2% in a Single Month, Largest Jump Since 1967 · Thermal Mod, Tropicals & WRC Edition

Friday, April 10, 2026 Canadian Policy & BC Timber Supply Edition · Commerce 7th Review Drops Canadian Softwood Combined Duty Rate to 24.83% · U.S. Forest Service Headquarters Moving to Salt Lake City; 50+ Research Stations Closing

Thursday, April 9, 2026 Biomass & Fiber Competition Edition · Drax Locks 1M Tonnes/Year of Pellets Into Pathway Energy's $2B Texas SAF Plant · Oregon Pellet Mills Loads First Japan-Bound Vessel From Coos Bay as ILWU Picket Erupts

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 Finishes, Primers & Color Edition · R.P. Lumber Acquires Bender Lumber, Reaches 99 Stores Across Seven States · Kronospan Extends European Panel Footprint with Sebes Sawmill Acquisition

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 Washington Timber Squeezed From Both Ends as Exports Hit 21-Year Low · Hampton Lumber Goes East: $225M Southern Yellow Pine Mill Breaks Ground in Allendale, SC · Woodgrain Commits $17M to East Coast Millwork Expansion

Monday, April 6, 2026 Markets Reopen Into Iran Deadline as Trump’s April 6 Ultimatum Hits Today · Canadian Combined Duties Now at 45.6% as 22 Mills Stay Closed Permanently · West Coast Hardwood: “Curious and Uneven” as Q2 Begins

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