CALENDAR

January

Seattle Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 11, crab feed, initiation & past presidents'ni!e, Franco's, Union l-ake, Seattle, Wa.

Coast to Coast - Jan. 11-14, merchandise meeting, Sands Expo Center, Las Vegas, Nv.

Ace Hardware - Jan. 13-14, lumber & building materials show, Orlando. Fl.

Cotter & Co. - Jan. 15-19, winter lumber market, Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, Nv.

Roof Coatlngs Manufacturers Assochtlon - Jan. 15-20, annual conference & expo, I-e Meridien at San Diego, Coronado, Ca.

Natlonal Housewares Manufacturers Assoclatlon - Jan. 1619t international housewares show, McCorrrick Place, Chicago, Il.

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 17, initiation, The Tuesday Club, Sacramento, Ca.

Phoenlx Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. lt, golf, Pavilion Lakes Golf Club, Scottsdale, Az.

North Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 19, beer & crab feed, Mt. Vemon Elks, Mt Vernon, Wa.

SEt GFOUP I NT ERNATI O NAL, IN C. PO Box 220, Plalnvlew, NY 11803 fnhnd Emplre Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 21, initiatiott/golf tournamenL Indian Hills Golf Club. Riverside, Ca.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 19, Industry Night, Broiler Steak House, Llkiah, Ca.

Humboldt Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 20, annual crab feed, Eureka Inn, Eureka, Ca.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 20, initiation & past presidents night, Spokane, Wa.

Shasta Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 21, initiation, Red Lion Inn, Redding, Ca-

Servlstar - Jan. 23-26, lumber/rental convention, Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, Tx.

Natlonal Assoclatlon of Home Bullders - Jan. 25, annual convention & exposition, Las Vegas, Nv.

Our Own Hardware - Jan.27-29, building materials expo, Orlando, Fl.

Natlonal Assoclation of \ilholesaler-Distrlbutors - Jan. 31Feb.2, annual meeting, Washington, D.C.

February

Tacoma-Olympla Hoo-Hoo Club - Feb. 1, casino nite, Tacoma, Wa.

Wood Mouldlng & Mlllwork Producers Assoclatlon - Feb. 913, annual meeting, Stouffer Wailea Beach, Maui, Hi.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club - Feb. 10, Valentines party, Spokane, Wa.

Callfornla Hardware Co. - Feb. 12-13, Sentry market, Pomona Fairgrounds, Pomona, Ca.

Natlonal Wood Wlndow & Door Assoclatlon - Feb. 12-16, annual meeting, PGA National Resort, Palm Beach, Fl.

Home Center Show's Bulldlng, Remodellng & Decor Products Expo - Feb. 13-15, Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Tx.

Materlal Handllng, Storage & Dellvery Show - Feb. 13-15, show within BRD Expo, Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Tx.

North Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club - Feb. 15, Loggers Night, Bellingham Lakeway Inn, Bellingham, Wa.

Phoenlx Hoo-Hoo Club - Feb. 15, golf, Villa De Paz, Phoenix, Az.

Natlonal Assoclatlon of tbe Remodellng Industry -Feb, X2-4, annual convention. Loews Anatole, Dallas, Tx.

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Tom llalter, president, Trio Forest Products, Inc.

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Roger Burch, president, Redwood Empire, Inc.

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Volatile Lumber Markets In 1994

Lumber markets and prices could be volatile in 1994 as failure to resolve the timber supply crisis continues to plague Western sawmills, Western Wood Products Association president Robert H. Hunt maintains.

The forest plan shows a narked disregard for people's need for wood products, he said, adding western sawmill production will fall 8Vo n 1993 and l0Vo in 1994 although lumber markets will continue to improve. He predicts Western '94 volume at 15.8 billion feet. Hunt expects Southem and Canadian mills filling the voids will peak in comrng years.

Prices will remain high, but lower than early '93 levels, Hunt forecasts. Ponderosa pine prices are up 27 7o ftom '93. Desptte increases, real lumber prices - adjusted for inflation - remain below previous highs. Had average 1979 Douglas fir lumber prices kept pace with inflation, they would be $592 mbl $119 more than the current average price.

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A voluntary quality assuiurce progran for hardwood lumber has been adopted by the National Hardwood Lumber Association.

Everyone from producer to end user should benefit, since the Grading Certification Program provides built-in quality control and reduced handling costs since each load of lumber no longer has o be regraded.

Participating member mills must demonstrate that their grading inspection procedures produce consistent quallty from load to load, within general guidelines. Those who pass the initial site inspection and agree to periodic spot checks by an NHLA inspector may then sign a license agreement to use the association's trademarked logo and tle words "NHLA Certified" and "Certified" in connection with their lumber. Only lumber that qualifies under the NHLA Grading Certification Program rnay be identified as "Certified" either verbally or on printed rraterials, ads, invoices and stencils.

Lumberman Needs Help

Members of the lumber industry are responding to a drive to raise funds for a redwood lumber salesman stricken with an incurable illness.

When Craig Cookingham, 40, a Louisiana-Pacific employee in Lake Oswego, Or., was diagnosed with brain cancer, his family soon found they were unable to cope with the expenses involved in fighting an illness of this serious nature. Following months of tests and surgeries, Craig endured seven weeks ofradiation therapy to shrink the tumor before returning home to his wife and nvo sons late last month.

Prior o joining L-P's sales office in Lake Oswego, he had worked for Holt Lumber, Fresno, Ca.; Pacific Wood, Salem, Or.; Shaw Lumber, Sacramento, Ca.; L-P Coastal Division, Llkiah, Ca.; G&R Lumber, Cloverdale, Ca., and Hancock Lrmber, Salem.

Concerned industry members including L-P, which made a generous donation, are rallying to help Craig and his family.

Checks should be made payable to Account #120103069904, FBO Craig Cookingham, and mailed to West One Bank, Oregon, Kruse Woods Office, 5285 S.W. Meadows Rd., Suite 148, Iake Osweg o, A. 97 035-32n

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Owl Droppings

by Matt Moulder

Did you ktow lhat in Japan only 5olo of logs processed at sawmilb end up as waste? In the U.S. 5tr6 of all logs sauln go inlo waste and "low value products," whatever that is. This stata menl was made by Sam Hitl, dhedor of "Foresl Guardians,' a conservation group based in Sanla Fe, N.M., as pad of a sedes on forest matters featurcd by the Arizona Republic newspaper in November. In lypical fashion, the environmentalisl's comments stan od with a sniie rema* about 'limber batons profiting from the forests." One lhing for certain, if a limber baron (and the hundreds of people who depend on him for a living) wasles 50% of his logs, he is deslined for a much lowertitlethan baron. How aboul peasant or pauper.

More lhan one nsu,spaper story that we have seen on the decline of salmon and steelhead runs on the Wesl Coast cites logging and grazing as prime causes. We were puzzled when rve leam€d from a nervs release on the dedine of salmon runs in the Noiheastem U.S. recently lhat lhe problem there is over-fishing. Commercial fishing boats cruising back and forth along the Pacifb Coasl, many of lhem unregulated foreign vessels, arE seldom listed as parl of the lish shoilage oul here. lf fishing pessure is commented on, it is mentioned at the tail end of the adide. Logging and grazing always get either headlines or first paragraph treatment.

Pafliolarly bemusing was an adicle on pllution in the Columbia River Basin printed in a major Northwest newspap€r s€veral months ago. Logging and grazing were, as usual, the first causes ciled. Those who may have read the entire aiicle leamed that lhere are 2I1 dams on the Columbia and its tribuhries, obviously more deserving of lisling on the marquee than logging and grazing. The dozen or so aluminum plants on lhe dver syslem also received "by the way''trealmenl by the wriler.

Thb bdngs us to a very recent news story on the lhreatened extinclion of steelhead in the Camel River south of Monterey, Ca. There is no logging on the Camel River watershed and about the only grazing is done by deer on the golf courses in the area. With the media's favorite targels being ineligible for bhme, whal could the cause of the problem be? The sleelhead were 'decimated by drought in the late'80s and early '90s." No other reason is given, psl the drought. Yel drought is even more seldom mentioned than commercial fishing when migralory fish declines in olher parts of the West are discussed. I always thought thal the droughl of lhe '80s and '90s extended well beyond the Monterey area.

Some good news for lumbermen and loggers came oul recently. Stading this spring, Tagamet will be pdced approximatety 67olo lower than t is annently. The palent on il expires in Apdl. Tagamel b a presaiplion drug used widely for lhe lreatmenl of ulces.

A quick review of lhe highlights and low pints of 1993 for the lumber industry follows. Low pinls: Radical environmentalist Al Gore becomes vice president. Jack Wad Thomas, the man whose faulty researd is responsible for the spotted owl aippling the industry, is appinted head of the U.S. Foresl Service. The President's Forest Plan is hailed as a viclory for environmentalisls. High pints of 1993: A drastic reduclion in the price of Tagamel b announced.

Manufacturerc: Ponderosa & Sutar Pine Mouldings and Cutstock

"Do as I say, not as I do" is the motto of the Sierra Club's Northwest Regional director, William Arthur, Seattle, Wa-

A member of the forestry panel convened in Portland last April by President Clinton and the man who said about the lumber industry, "We cut like there's no tomorrow and tomorow caugbt up with us yesterday," Arthur has done some cutting of his own on 15 acres in the northeast corner of Washington state beside the Pend Oreille River.

Looking for money to improve a house he owns in the area, he sold Douglas fir, white fr, ponderosa pine and cedar trees on the property to log exporter Global Pacific Forest Products on Dec. 30, 1992. Global paid him $10,000 for the trees and hired a Chatteroy, Wa., firm to complete the harvesL

Now the property east of the Cascades in an arca surrounded by the Colville National Forest has only the mini mum trees required by the state of private landowners - two wildlife trees, two recruittrlent trees and two downed logs per acre plus some tall, but scftrwny cull trees called "whips."

Tbe logging permit signed by Arthur called for 150 trees of any kind to be left behind, allowing 70% of the standing timber volume, about 85,000 b.f. of merchantable timber, to be removed by skidder. Replanting was called for "if n@essa4/."

Arthur, who had cut the property once before for money to put himself through graduate school, defended the job. "It was a selective cul I think they