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Don Peters. 69. retired lumber buyer for BMC West, Issaquah, Wa., died Jan. 9.

Mr. Peters was in the lumber industry for over 40 years, working for Simpson Timber, Shelton, Wa., and Vandermeer Forest Products, Lynnwood, Wa., among others.

He joined BMC West in the late 1980s, eventually retiring in 2001.

Jack Chamberlain, 74, retired salesman for Eel River Sawmills, Fortuna, Ca., died Jan. 4 in Fortuna.

A native of ldaho, Mr. Chamber-

Weyco Sells NW Forestlands

Weyerhaeuser Co. sold 100,000 acres of Washington forestlands to a non-profit conservation company.

Comprised of regional business, political and environmental leaders, Evergreen Forest Trust will continue to harvest timber, but with an increased focus on protecting ecologically sensitive areas near rivers and lain grew up in Oregon, where he was drafted into the Army in 1945, serving with the 98th General Hospital in Europe.

In 1951, he opened Ed Fountain Lumber Co.'s wholesale office in Arcata, Ca., which later relocated to Fortuna in 1954.

In 1966. the office closed and Chamberlain went to work for Eel River Sawmills. He managed the sawmill in Redcrest, Ca., transferring to sales before his retirement tn 1994.

Douglas W. Rodgers, 81, retired foreman of the now-defunct Westside Lumber Co., Tuolumne City, Ca., died Nov. 28 in Tuolumne City.

A native of Jeffersonville, Ca., he worked for Westside Lumber for 50 steep banks. years before continuing on with Pickering Lumber Co., which bought the mill in the early 1960s.

The timber sale is expected to affect the company's Snoqualmie Timberlands Operation, resulting in the loss of 60 employees.

The $185 million purchase of land in eastern King and Snohomish counties was designed to resist encroachins urbanization.

Mr. Rodgers also worked with Cal Siena Timber.

Ernest M. Park, 84, owner and partner of the now-defunct Brightwood and All-Brite Lumber Co., Redding, Ca., died Nov. 30.

A native of Kansas. Mr. Park served as a U.S. Navy Seabee during World War II.

Everett '6Doc" Howard, 80, retired worker at Georgia-Pacific's Fort Bragg, Ca., sawmill, died Jan. 3 in Fort Bragg.

A native of Fort Bragg, Mr. Howard started in the industry at Union Lumber Co., which was later bought by G-P. He retired in 1978.

Robert Eugene Lee Miller, 81, retired grader for Snider Lumber, Turlock. Ca.. died Dec.26 in Turlock.

A native of Spokane, Wa., Miller served as a torpedoman first class aboard the U.S.S. Lexington from 1940 to 1946.

Snider Lumber closed in the mid1980s.