We need to tell our side of the story

By Keith Lanning President and General Manager California Redwood Association

T HE redwood industry has pro- I duced and sold redwood for more than a century - through good times and bad. We have survived depressions, war, government timberland acquisitions and building recessions.

In the 1990s we will be coping with increasing concern about the harvesting of old growth timber, cutting practices and animal habitats. We will also be dealing with a onesided media and environmentalist extremism in the presentation of these issues. We are not, however, facing these problems alone.

There are no easy solutions to these problems, but we believe the path to choose is communication on many levels. We are a responsible industry committed to timber production on a longterm basis.lf the public is made aware of the true facts about the wood producing industry, they