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If,l'e're proud to announce the opening of our new Buckner (Kansas City), Mo., treating facility. It joins our other treating locations at Glenwood and Amity, Ar.

Our newest product is pre-stained lumber. It joins an impressive roster of proven moneymakers for you. All grades and sizes of treated and untreated dimension, plus treated timbers, boards and deck accessories. And we have the trucks to get it to you. And one call gets it all. You can depend on it.

What has Smokey Bear done in the woods?

On any day, inside the emerald calm of our forests lurks the silent, perpetual threat of a catastrophic forest fire.

In the past, millions of acres of trees have been saved by government fire fighting efforts. But now, federal actions limiting road building and forest management threaten to keep our forests in harm's way.

In this decade, federal policy has slashed logging in the national forests by nearly 75Vo. This loss of scientific management has produced an inevitable result obvious to all but the political appointees who use political correctness as their main forest management tool.

As our forests have been locked up and logging roads closed and, in some cases, eradicated, the build-up of combustible growth has continued like a ticking time bomb. This fuel load varies from area to area. In some places, there is virtually no threat at all. In others, hints of a disastrous outcome are all too real. In Alaska, for example, there are three million acres of dead and dying trees due to the spruce bark beetle. Because of environmental sensitivity, there has been minimal salvage logging on the huge Kenai Peninsula. Similar conditions exist in the Pacific Northwest as well as the South where logging and thinning have been ignored.

The PC crowd claims that man's exclusion equals natural management. Most professional foresters see this for what it is: dangerous nonsense,

Weather is always a factor, but it doesn't take a seer to forecast that a hot, dry spring and summer could result in our most devastating forest fire since Oregon's infamous Tillamook Burn of the 1930s. It took years to extinguish that one.

It's disgusting that one of America's greatest resources has been placed in imminent danger by politicians who have misled the public with fanciful environmental fallacies. We can only hope common sense and scientific forest management return before millions of trees go up in smoke.