EDITORIAL

T?uly Fearless Forecasts

Inside this issue are experts' prognostications ofbusiness changes in the next few years. On this page, however, we relate to our breathless readers a forecast fable from 25 years in the future. That's right, what it will be like in the year 2020.

FORECAST #l: The oh-so-fragile Environment, after 7,000 years of battering by humans, just simply dries up and blows away.

FORECAST #2: President of the United States Sonny Bono, using accounting techniques learned during his Hollywood days, decrees home mortgage interest rates can't exceed one percent per annum.

FORECAST #3: Earlier shortages of old growth timber are solved when scientists find that Douglas fir and southern yellow pine trees grow to 100 foot heighs in th'ree weeks when fed on a diet of Geritol, Jack Daniels andZ,antac.

FORECAST #4: The Great American Public, tired of shopping at big box warehouses, now only pafonize local lumber dealers with three or fewer employees.

FORECAST #5: The Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society, finally exposed as self-serving commercial enterprises with no rcal interest in Saving The World, have been sold to a consortium of five big forest products companies. Early reports indicate the two enviro groups will soon begin selling aluminum siding.

FORECAST #6: Treated wood, known for decades as a valuable and safe product, additionally has been discovered to be good to eat and so nutritious and delicious it now comes in chocolate, vanilla and lemon-lime flavors.

FORECAST #7: Frustrated by slow truck and train deliveries, all lumber is now shipped by air freight, with local deliveries exclusively via helicopter.

And there you have it, the 2Ol2O foresight for the year 2020. Stay tuned, film at I l.