SFPA/APA's joint annual meeting in Nashville

lAalling attention to threats from Vpreservationists attacking the r€source base, raids from competitive wood species, and fruh assaults from non-wood building materials such as steel, John Shealy, Willamette Industries, Ruston, [^a., told the joint annual meeting of Southern Forest Products Association and American Plywood Association "we are circling our wagons to figbt off attacks from every direction."

John Galloway, APA chairman and president of Hood Industries, Inc., Hattiesburg, Ms., told the group Oat although industry exports declined last year, "our industry is once again on pace to match or exceed the record mark of 1990. And I believe we are poised to make guantum leaps throughout the balance of this decade and beyond."

Keynote speaker William Peny Pendley, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Denver, Co., delivered a denunciation of the preservationist agenda locking out loggers, miners, ranchers and developers from using nature's bounties.

Luncheon speaker David Gergen, political commentator, gave delegates an analysis of the presidential election.

Willian T. Robison, in his last major speech to the industry before he