The U.S. Forest Service announced it will be issuing $248 million in Secure Rural Schools payments for 2025, delivering critical funding to eligible states and counties with National Forest System lands. These payments help sustain public schools, maintain local roads, strengthen wildfire preparedness, and support other essential services in rural communities.

Bureau of Land Management, with support from the Foundation for America’s Public Lands, has launched the Freedom 250 Volunteer Celebration — an agencywide effort to recognize and inspire volunteer service on America’s public lands throughout 2026.

A new residential project in New York’s Hudson Valley is redefining sustainable architecture through design, performance, and material innovation. The Ohayo Mountain House, designed by Amin Tadj Studio, demonstrates how contemporary homes can act as carbon sinks—featuring Lunawood thermally modified wood cladding as a central element of its low-carbon design strategy.

Marking the one-year anniversary of their celebrated collaboration, Italian tailoring house Rubinacci and Los Angeles-based design studio 11 Ravens unveil an expanded collection of luxury game tables, including a ping pong table, shuffleboard table, poker table, and chess boards.

Overall housing starts increased 10.8% in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.5 million units, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau.

The build brought together industry partners, customers, and employees for a shared day of service focused on building homes and strengthening the community.

UFP Industries has acquired the operating assets, including real estate, of Berry Pallets, Inc., a pallet manufacturer based in Waseca, Minnesota for approximately $20 million. The transaction expands UFP Packaging's pallet manufacturing footprint and strengthens UFP Packaging's ability to serve customers across the upper Midwest.

As a Platinum Sponsor and exclusive cabinet provider of Habitat of Humanity's 2026 Carter Work Project, MasterBrand is supporting the project through design services to create kitchens and bathrooms for Langston Park, a planned community in the Sylvan Hills neighborhood, with the construction of 24 new single-family homes and townhouses.

Davis Timber Company’s expansion will take place at its production facility within the Beauregard Regional Airport Industrial Complex in DeRidder, where the company produces poles and pilings used in utility and infrastructure applications. The project will add new processing capabilities to the existing operation, improving efficiency and enhancing product readiness for market.

Building on the government’s strategic investments and actions to-date through Ontario’s Forest Sector Strategy, the roadmap responds to new unprecedented trade pressures facing the sector today by increasing the forest industry’s competitive advantage and unlocking new markets to maintain Ontario’s position as a G7 leader in making and selling wood products.