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Timber! What to expect now that lumber prices have dropped back down to earth
construction sites on the city’s west side as lumber prices spiked.But now prices are falling back to earth.“We’ve seen a lot of price volatility for sure the most ever in, I think, the history of the lumber business,” said Susan Yurkovich of the BC Council of Forest Industries.About a month ago, the price of 1,000 board feet of softwood lumber peaked at over $1,600. It’s now almost half that.