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Bob Anderson has retired as Ukiah, Ca., treating plant mgr. for Mendocino Wood Specialties, Santa Rosa, Ca., but will be available on a consulting basis for the next year.

Jim Arthurs has been named engineered wood products segment leader for Weyerhaeuser Building Materials, Federal Way, Wa. Also previously with MacMillan Bloedel, Chip Register is now commodity trading group leader; Kevin Seward, cedar products segment leader; Jim Warnke, U.S. operations leader, and Carlos Guilherme, Canadian operations leader. George Rife has transferred to the Boise, Id., Customer Service Center as gen. mgr.

David Billingsley, ex-J.M. Thomas Forest Products, has joined United Pacific Forest Products, St. Helens, Or.

Vince Galloway is now in domestic sales at Parr Lumber Co., Chino, Ca.

Tom Powell, ex-Liberty Hardwoods, is now with Saroyan Lumber Co., Huntington Park, Ca.

Rodney Bullion has been promoted to general merchandise mgr. at Olympia, Wa., headquarters of Lumbermen's Building Centers.

Todd Harrison, Upland, Ca., has been named Southern California sales mgr. for shake and shingle products for Clarke Group Marketing.

Ken Crenshaw is new to purchasing at North American Forest Products, Mount Vernon, Wa.

Laurie Creech, ex-Weyerhaeuser Co., has been appointed mgr., sales & marketing-lumber and fiber for the Northwest Timber and Wood Products division of Simpson Timber Co.. Shelton, Wa.

Terris H. Inglett has been appointed president and chief operating officer of Honsador Lumber, Kapolei, Hi.

Neil Nakamura, previously with Forest Grove Lumber, is now with Elk Creek Sales, St. Paul, Or.

Will Sunkenberg is new to sales at Boise Cascade, Boise, Id. Jerry Huff is transferring from operations to sales.

Bill Sporre has been promoted to v.p. of operations and sales for Quality Veneer & Lumber, Seattle, Wa., operators of Hanel Lumber Co., Hood River, Or.; Mayr Lumber Co., Hoquiam, Wa., and QVL Plywood, Omak, Wa.

Brian Jones, ex-Marine Lumber Services, is now with D.R. Johnson Lumber, Riddle, Or. Patrick Custer, ex-Sierra Pacific Industries. is now with Universal Forest Products. Windsor. Co.

Mike Pedersen has been promoted to v.p. & general mgr. at Tubafor Holdings, Morton and Amanda Park, Wa.

Hal Smith, formerly with Ernst Home & Nursery, is now president and ceo of HomeWarehouse.com. San Mateo, Ca., succeeding founder Rich Shane, now v.p. of business development.

Bob Gaspar has been appointed regional sales mgr.-Southwest U.S. for B.F. Goodrich Co.'s Blazemaster Fire Sprinkler Systems.

Cindy Johnson has been named mgr. for CertainTeed Corp.'s Insulation Group service center now under construction in Portland, Or.

Gary Gundlach, ex-Pacific Lumber Co., is now an executive accounts representative for Cal North Cellular, Eureka, Ca.

Tim Feagan, president and ceo, Team Industries, Inc., has been named president of the Structural Panel Association, Gig Harbor, Wa., succeeding John Devine.

Len Kuhr has been named chief financial officer of TruServ Corp., succeeding Kerry Kirby, who retired. Ed Detrich and Tom Capalbo have been promoted to, respectively, national sales mgr. and general mgr., rental division; Thomas J. Filipski was named chairman of the board of Member Insurance Ltd.. and Robert Ostrov was elected to the board.

Bruce H. Cowgill, Insulation Group pres., CertainTeed Corp., was reelected chairman of the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association. Thomas Caltrider, Johns Manville, Denver, Co., was elected vice chairman; Kenneth Mentzer, president and ceo, and Angus Crane, v.p. and general counsel.

Dennis Richardson, OregonCanadian Forest Products of California, Orange, Ca., is recovering following knee surgery.

Chuck Daughtry, Picks Building Materials, West Covina, Ca., won a three-year subscription to The Merchant Magazine from Landmark Building Products, San Bemardino, Ca., for guessing closest to what the CDX market was going to be for the upcoming week.

Sue M. Dailey has been retained as general counsel at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., report owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

Oregon Man Liquidates Firm

The embattled owner of Conde's Redwood Lirmber Co., Harrisburg, Or., said he is liquidating his inventory and plans to move to Belize after resolving his legal troubles.

William Conde said he wants to keep the property and eventually build a wholesale industrial hemp supply business on the site.

A marijuana activist, Conde is fighting felony and misdemeanor charges filed in relation to concerts he has sponsored during the past two years.

"I have to liquidate while I've still got something to liquidate," he said. "I'm not giving up the fight, but I have to do it from a distance."

Police said the charges are related solely to Conde's role as a concert organizer, and do not reflect upon his business practices.

"His lumberyard has never had anything to do with this," asserted sheriff Dave Bunight. "The problems are with the surrounding property and his sponsoring these hemp festivals."

The indictments allege that Conde participated in the delivery of a controlled substance and hindered prosecution, charges the defendant hotly denies.

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U.S. Lumber lmports Soaring

Quota restraints on Canadian exports have caused Southern Hemisphere and European lumber exports to displace North American suppliers, according to Wood Markets Quorterly.

The publication reported that market shares of U.S. West Coast lumber exports have plummeted because other exporters have invaded their turf.

"Now, domestic U.S. producers find these same producers right at their back door, aggressively competing in the U.S. market." said publisher Russell Taylor. "As a result, U.S. imports of softwood lumber from Europe and the Southern Hemisphere are forecast to reach over 2 billion M. ft. in 2005."

Taylor noted that while production rates for six selected European countries and three Southern Hemisphere countries have collectively increased by almost 40Vo during the 1990s, the growth of their exports is a resounding 9OVo during the same period.

"It is evident that European producers, especially the large integrated firms, have developed a strategy to position themselves in all three of the major lumber markcts in the world," he said. "(However), the most efficient Scandinavian and Austrian mills can be cost competitive in the U.S. market with domestic North American production."

Prcdictions for 2005 of U.S. imports of European softwood lumber range from 400 million bd. ft. to I billion, mainly as dimension lumber.

Pine lumber exports to the U.S. from New Zealand, Chile, Brazil and Argentina rose from 12 million bd. ft. in l99l to about 625 million last year, according to the report.

L-P Selling Sealant Division

DOMESTIC SALES: Jerry Long. Michael Parrella. Lynn Bethurum. Janet Pimentel, Pete Ulloa, George Parden, Vince Galloway.

INTERNATIONAL SALES: Nestor Pimentel. Oscar Portillo.

Louisiana-Pacific Corp. is selling its sealants, adhesives and coatings subsidiary, Associated Chemists, Inc., to ACI management and equity firm Industrial Crowth Partners.

L-P says ACI has been increasingly profitable since acquiring it in 1996, but the sale will help fund core businesses and a share repurchase program. After the sale, ACI will continue to supply L-P with its coatings and chemicals.

Bascd in Portland, Or., with an additional facility in Orangeburg, S.C., ACI manufactures specialtY paints, coatings, defoamers and specialty process adhesives for the wood products, pulp and paper industries.

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Boise Cascade Plans Audit

Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Id., plans to audit forest management practices on its 2.3 million acres of U.S. timberland. and has retained PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to audit its western Oregon timberlands.

The audits will begin early this year and continue on a regular schedule thereafter.

The firm also has established a Forest Stewardship Advisory Council whose members will help review audit results and recommend any changes.

Among the council members are three noted conservationists: George Brown, Ph.D., dean emeritus, College of Forestry, Oregon State University; David Thorud, Ph.D., dean, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, and Jack Ward Thomas, Ph.D., professor of wildlife biology, University of Montana School of Forestry, and chief emeritus, U.S. Forest Service.

"Having an independent, highly qualified third party audit our forest practices and the ongoing advice of independent experts will allow us to more readily substantiate our forest stewardship claims to customers, shareholders and other constituents." said George J. Harad, chairman and ceo.

1999 Home Sales Set Record

Despite rising mortgage rates, sales of existing homes rose 4.6Vo in 1999 to a record 5.197 million, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales topped 1998's previous record of 4.97 million, despite a l.4Vo slippage in December from the month prior to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.06 million units.

Economists said the December decline meant that rising mortgage rates have begun to lessen demand.

Teachers Tours $ Sought

The National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association is searching for sponsors to give science and environmental teachers a chance to learn about forest management.

Over lfi) teachers nationwide participated in the 1999 tours sponsored by the Temperate Forest Foundation, along with other individuals and organizations.

Teachers Tours 2000 enable teachers to tour paper and saw mills and discuss issues such as sustainable forestry, harvesting, reforestation, conservation and industry laws. Attendees can then take the information back to their students for classroom discussion.

U.S. tours will be held in Asheville, N.C. (June l4-17); Fortuna, Ca. (July 12-15), and Green Bay, Wi. (July 26-20). A Canadian tour will be held Aug. 16-19 in Edmundston, New Brunswick.

Participating sponsors cover program costs, and attending teachers will reportedly receive continuing education credit.

For further information, contact NLBMDA, 40 Ivy St., SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. Completed applications must be received by March 31.

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Western Wood Products Association's electronic buyer's guide reportedly allows browsers to locate Western lumber suppliers with just a few mouse clicks.

The site (www.wpa.org/members. asp) enables wholesalers and retailers to select species, products or services and generate a list of member mills. All company listings include sales contacts, products and shipping information, plus a link to their Web site.

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Starts Best Since 1986

U.S. new housing construction rose'7.lVo in December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.712 million, according to the Commerce Department.

Warmer-than-usual weather was credited for the stronger-than expected finish, which brought total starts for 1999 to 1.663 million units, the most since 1.805 million new homes were constructed in 1986.

Single-family houses, built at the fastest pace in 20 years, led the 2.8V0 rise from 1998.

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