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Mountain States Lumber & Buitding Material Dealers Association has booked 130 booths for its annual product expo & building materials buying show March 4-5 at the Denver Merchandise Mart.

The theme is "Mountain States Mardi Gras, Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!"

Lumber Association of California and Nevada's Second Growth will host its first annual mill tour May 1920 in Northern California. Stops include a working logging operation; Western Woods, Inc., Chico, Ca.; Sierra-Pacific's Lincoln, Ca., sawmill; S-P's manufacturing plant in Richfield, Ca., and its offices in Redding, Ca., for an educational program.

Second Growth will also meet March 4 at the Radisson Resort Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, Ca. Discussion topics will range from the types and applications of wood preservatives, standards and specifications, to the CheckMark Quality Assurance Identification Program.

LACN will present a dealer seminar, "Growth Profits from Your Core In '04," Feb. 18 at the Holiday Inn Select, Fairfield, Ca., and Feb. 19 at the Sheraton Anaheim Hotel, Anaheim, Ca. Bruce Merrifield will lead the seminar, discussing ways to reinvent dealer and supplier profitability to top one percentile levels.

Western Building Material Association is co-sponsoring a Northern California and Southern Oregon mill tour with the Lumber Association of California & Nevada and Lumbermens Association of Texas.

The May 2-6 tour includes stops at Simpson Timber, Eureka, Ca.; Pacific Wood Laminantes, Brookings, Or.; Kerr's Ace Hardware Buildins Center.

Brookings, and Sierra-Pacific Industries, Redding, Ca.

Western Hardwood Association holds its annual meeting June 25-59 at the JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort, Las Vegas, Nv.

Topics include hardwood conversion, NHLA, overseas markets, and other issues concerning California, Utah, and Arizona.

A Red Alder Symposium will be held March 24-26 at the University of Washington, Seattle, Wa. Scheduled for discussion are forest health issues, alder resources and their issues, cultural history of red alder, silviculture of plantations for timber objectives, regeneration, and a field trip to an alder sawmill.

Material Handling Industry of America holds its 2004 Material Handling & Logistics Show and Conference March 29-April 1 at the IX Center. Cleveland. Oh.

Exhibits will be accompanied by executive forums, workshops and educational seminars, with such speakers as Christopher White, The Stanley Works; Steve Banker, ARC Advisory Group, and Barry O'Brien, Hasbro.