Friday Five: Forestry News for December 8, 2017

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

Wind is the culprit in 2017’s horrific wildfire season

• latimes.com

How this ‘doctor’ brings in over $10,000 a day healing trees

• cnbc.com

Beetles are ravaging Europe’s oldest forest. Is logging the answer?

• sciencemag.org

Woman Steals Christmas Trees, Waves at Surveillance Cameras

• nbcnewyork.com

126 images combined to show the massiveness of a 3,200 year old tree in the Sequoia National Park

• imgur.com