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Climate lumber forests
www.theatlantic.com

How climate change helped fuel the U.S. lumber shortage

Bitcoin? Blasé. Gold? Going out of style. "The hottest commodity on the planet," according to Dustin Jalbert, an economist at the market-research firm Fastmarkets, is lumber.

Oregon’s logging industry says it can't afford new taxes. But profits are soaring
www.propublica.org

Oregon’s logging industry says it can't afford new taxes. But profits are soaring

Lobbyists claim the timber industry is "up against the ropes." Here's what they're not saying: Lumber prices are at record highs.
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