NEWS BRIEFS

Terry Lumber Co., Tatzana, Hone Depgt has opened a *it Ca-, has sigred a letter of intent to in Northeasi porthnd. Or.. and a purchase Chnndler Lwnber Co.'s slightly larggi 127,000 sq. ft. store Palmdale, Ca., yard; Chandler's in-neirbvtedar Mill. br.. Bill other yards are being leased to Carpentei store ms.: set an'Aus. li1;y#:"'rolifi,i'?

Sacramento, Ca., is liquidating ... Tucson, Az. (its 3rd), and is wine with,HomeBase and other-s t6 expiring land lease and consolidated operations at its Los Alamitos, J & M Lumber, Montrose. Co.. Ca.,,yard- w_1th-1o loss-of personnel and Dan's Building Materials', ... North Hollywood i,umber & Delta, Co., have been acouired bv Mjl/, North Hollywood, Ca., has United Building Centers .'.. Daieis lil:9

Euitdins .Sip/ttes, Santa paula, bankruptcy, accordin g to Mc- Ca., has closed Cord's Daity Notificatioi Sheet

Builders Square is negotiating

Crenshaw Lumber, Gardena, with the citv-to move iis Albul Ca., has opened a second show- querque, N.M., store to an 8-acre room for its Sash-and-Door Div. slte is a Builders Square II

Ernst has begun construction Parr Lumber Co. haj moved its ona 46,000 sq_. ft. store. in Aloha, Or., yard and Hq. (see story Lewiston, Id., and is considering p. 25) ...

Cal State Forest Products. Orange, Ca., moves next month to an expanded facility with .18,@0 sq. ft. warehouse in Santa Ana, Ca. ... Reid & Wright, Inc., Arcata, Ca., is completing an expansior/remodel proiect a-t its Bend, 0r., distribution vard. doubling the size of its offices and expanding the warehouse ...

Taylor Lumber & Treating, Sheridan, Or., has resolved its lEmonth millworker strike (see story p. 25) Marvin Wood Producis plans a $2.5 million expansion at its Baker City, Or., facillty...

Wi llame tt e Indus t r ic s expects 1996 cornpletion of a laminated veneer lumber plant to be built its LVL production ... Pacific Lumber Co., Scotia, Ca., was dermanently banned by a fed6ral judge from logging i37 acres of its Owl Creek tract in Humboldt County, Ca., due to the marbled murrelet

McMinnville, Or. Lake Drive is building a Ca.,4gtn ... Southe'rn Lumber', nursery in 132,000 sq. ft. store including a San Jose, Ca.,40th ... produci nursery in Albuquerque, N.M., set Sales Co.,Orange, Ca-,30th Sales Co., Orange, to open in the spring Copeland Lumber, Portland, Or., received a Bridger Forest Products,

Anniversaries: M.J. Mu.rnhi. Ha-rdware, Crestline, Ca., is Inc.,Carnre,l Valley, Ca., 91si ... adding a nursery this spring ... Gilroy Lumber, Gihoy. Ca., 50th ... Bis Creiek Lwnber. Davenport.

6Gday extension for its purchase evaluation of the land mgr.; will open soon in La Cres- Gemini Forest Products, Las ."j.nla: Ca- and is building. in Al-amitos, Ca., has opened-new whittier, ca. ... ,Logan Lumber offices and a distributi6n center in was honored as the Sparks. Nv.. Reddins- Ca. ... Ed Holderncs.e Nv., Redding, Ca. ... Ed Holderness Chamber of Commerce-'s Business Supplie{. lrc^ has sold its lumber Supplies,lnc., its lurnber of the Year Lompoc Lumber, opeiations, including the wholeLompoc, Ca., and sister company sile business, truss plant and con. Classic Door & Window, Sant-n tractor yard in Tutson. Az.. to Barbarq Ca, have closed after fil- Consolidated Litmbir Co.,

Lumber Insurance Componies has been granted a license'to sell insurance in California and opened a sales offiee in Roseville, Ca., Tom Glancy regional v.p. National Gypsum Co. removed chairman C.D. Spansler Jr. after he spearheaded iwo-failed takeovefs by Delcor Inc., andthe company repofted other suitors have "expressed.an-interest in a possi ble acquisition"

Horne Depot's4th quarter earnings rose 30Vo to 9146 million; sales climbed 35Vo from $2.29 billion to $3.08 billion; same-store sales rose \Vo ... Manville's 4th quarter income rose from $5.3 million on sales of $583.4 million to $86.8 million on $709.4 million in sales ...

Housing starts in Jan. (latest figs.) fell9.8Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.3S miiIion; single-family starts plummeted, lZ.t% to the loweit levels since June 1993; starts fell in all regions ... sales of new single family homes fell O.6Vo in DEc. but closed out 1994 at their hiehest level in six years, up 0.6%-to 670,000.

Clinton Fighting To Save Endangered Species Act

Hoping to defuse a growing campaign in Congress and the courts to gut the Endangered Species Act, the Clinton Administration proposed to lift extensive restrictions on logging of private timber near northern spotted owl habitats in Northern California and Washington.

Although it would offer the most relief to small landowners (under 80 acres), the new policy would also free large landowners to cut trees, providing they leave 70-acre buffer zones around known owl nesting sites.

"We're trying to show that there is authority under the act to provide relief where it is warranted," said Donald Barry, Fish & Wildlife Service. "We're trying to demonstrate everything this particular vehicle is capable of doing so that people won't be in too great a hurry to trade it in."

He said the proposed change, which would not take effect for several months, is a direct result of Pres. Clinton's Northwest forest plan.

The government is also striking individual "habitat conservation plans" with private landowners to show the Endangered Species Act is flexible enough to accommodate pri- vate property rights.

The latest agreement was reached between U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Weyerhaeuser Co. The company will log 209,000 acres of its land near Coos Bay, Or., at relatively high volumes, in exchange for limiting clear cutting and employing logging methods considered less harmful to owl habitat. The pact is to be in force for as long as 50 years.

Weyerhaeuser also consented to design logging patterns in ways that leave corridors of larger, older trees that owls could use to move from company lands into surrounding federally-owned old growth areas.

Within a few months, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down a landmark ruling on the act's enforceability on private land. Experts contend the decision may hinge on the government's ability to prove the act's flexibility.

Additionally, the Forest Service set a May 8 deadline for comments on its new Environmental Impact Statement listing alternatives for the management of California spotted owl habitat in federal forests in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.

FOR DOMESTIC SAES CAL: Jerry Long, Michael Parrella, Lynn Bethurum, Janet Parrella, Pete Ulloa, Bruce Keith. Matt Petersen.

FOR INTERNATIONA SAES CAL: Nestor Pimentel. Abel Flores.