Friday Five: Forestry News for March 30, 2018

Friday Five is our weekly recap of timber and forestry news, and things we think are cool or interesting. Here are your top stories:

Universal Forest Products to acquire Georgia-based packaging products company

• mibiz.com

Arkansas Aims to Slow Spread of Beetle That Kills Ash Trees

• usnews.com

Dozens of ancient villages discovered in ‘uninhabited’ Amazon rain forest

• usatoday.com

‘Enormous wildcat’ found in Aberdeenshire forest

• bbc.com

Cross-section of a gingko tree

• i.redd.it