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Jim Pappas is negotiating to sell a majority interest in Honsador Lumber, Honolulu Wood Treating and Ariel Truss to investor Richard Foreman, who will become president and c.e.o. of a yet-to-be-named holding company. Pappas will remain Honsador chairman and Ariel Truss president. Terry Inglett will continue as Honsador president, and Hap Person will remain president of Honolulu Wood Treating. The deal is expected to close in Feb.

Ron Tipton retired Jan. 1 as product mgr. at All-Coast Forest Products. Chino. Ca. Greg Maselli, ex-LP, has joined the company as a builders specialist.

Terry Fischer has been promoted to lumber department mgr. at Boise Building Solutions' Riverside, Ca., DC.

Walter L. Ralston, Jr., ex-Coastal Lumber, has opened a West Coast sales office in Arcadia, Ca., for W.M. Cramer Lumber Co., Hickory, N.C.

Bill Howerton retired from Trinity River Lumber, Weaverville, Ca., Dec. l7 after 19 years with the company.

Peter Ciceri was appointed to the board of Progressive Solutions, Richmond, B.C.

Don Getts, ex-PrimeSource, has joined Weyerhaeuser Building Products as an outside sales rep in the San Francisco, Ca., Bay Area. Mike Huycke retired from Weyerhaeuser Co., Federal Way, Wa., Dec. 31 after 31 years in the industry.

Mike Sambrano, ex-Mills Pride Cabinets, has joined Universal Forest Products, Riverside, Ca., as customer service rep.

John Meyers is the new door group mgr. at Lumber Products' Chandler. Az.. distribution center. Art Wagner is door products purchasing and operations mgr.; Bob Henderson, outside sales representative-door products; Chuck Lawston, outside sales representativedoor products, and Jean Hearle, purchasing and operations assistant. The new door operation should be in full production by the end of the month.

Alan Thielmann is the new v.p.-marketing at Georgia-Pacific Corp. Mike Cousin has been named v.p.-planning and technology, building products.

Torn Rogers has opened a West Coast sales office in Tustin, Ca., for Gutchess Lumber. Cortland. N.Y.

Dallas Davis, ex-Weyerhaeuser Co., is now operations mgr. for Rosboro Forest Products, Springfield, Or.

Mike Moseby is new to market development at DuraBord, Redmond, Wa.

Janet Behnke is mgr. of Home Depot's new Klamath Falls, Or., store, and Keoni Queypo is mgr. of the new Kona, Hi., location. Joe Izganics is president of Depot's Services business unit. Kelly Barett is controller, succeeding Gregg Vickery, who was promoted to president for finance of the Eastern Division.

Michael T. Riordan was elected to the board at Potlatch Corp., Spokane, Wa. Kirsten Ingham, Pearson Millwork, Arlington, Wa., has been elected v.p. of the Architectural Woodwork Institute.

Dan Carver has been promoted to v.p.purchasing at Builders FirstSource, succeeding John Gunn, who resigned.

Mike Slee has been named plant mgr. for Johns Manville Roofing System Group's polyiso manufacturing facility to open in second quarter 2003 in Fernley, Nv. Robert Brune is plant superintendent; Tom Goff, plant engineer; John Cromwell, health safety and environment coordinator, and Pam Meacham, transportation supervisor. Jennifer Ford-Smith has joined JM's Roofing System Group, Denver, Co., as product mgr.-BUR/SBS/APP roofing systems. Patrick T. Kelly is product mgr. for single ply roofing systems.

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Doug Hart, OrePac, Wilsonville, Or., was named to the National Sash & Door Jobbers Association board, along with John Kerr, Reeb Millwork, Kent, Wa.; Jack LaRock, BMC West, Englewood, Co., and Brian Hoff, Trimco Millwork, Meridian, Id.

Al Diamantine, Hayward Building Supply, Hayward, Ca.; Kevin Fogarty, Osborne Lumber, Newark, Ca., and Frank Kinney, Hulbert Lumber Co., Fremont, Ca., recently met in San Francisco. Ca., for their annual lunch.

El Louise Waldron, Waldron Forest Products, Fair Oaks, Ca., returned from her annual golf trip in Acapulco.

Tristan Shout worked as DJ at MungusFungus Forest Products' recent Christmas party, report co-owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

Eel River May Have Buyer

A group of Seattle-area investors are looking to acquire the closed Eel River Sawmills despite the firm's millions in debt and its recent default on workers' compensation payments.

The investors are working with Englewood Forest Products to acquire the hard assets of the Fortuna, Ca.based company, which shuttered its sawmill a year ago and is now closing its power plant.

Englewood, which made a different offer to buy the mill last year, is looking to acquire Eel River's mills, rolling stock and its 20,000 acres of timberland, along with retiring its debt.

Eel River president Dennis Scott said he has asked the investors to clarify some of the offer's details. Scott is also considering an offer by local trucking businessman Don Nolan.

In late December, Eel River reported it could no longer pay workers' compensation claims by former Eel River workers, leaving the state of California to take over the payments. The state's Self Insurance Plans found Eel River understated its liability on 142 indemnity claims by $2,159,824 and had a total remaining liability on its workers' compensation claims estimated at $7.021.506. Eel River had been self-insured since 1980.

Former workers filed a $25 million lawsuit Dec. 23 claiming Eel River reneged on a written promise that workers would own a majority of stock and, thus. be able to call for new management when they saw fit. The suit also alleges company officials hid the existence of a Barbados subsidiary, bought a luxury home for private use, and used company funds to settle sexual harassment claims, without addressing inappropriate behavior.

Logging Aids Owl Study

The U.S. Forest Service will cut 176,000 acres of trees in California as part of a study on the impact of logging on the protected spotted owl.

The study, the first to research the industry's impact on species that depend on mature forests, will primarily take place in the Plumas National Forest northeast of Sacramento.

The project will cut trees up to 36" in diameter and eventually encompass watersheds ranging from 45,000 to 79,000 acres.

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