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A Georgia-Pacific redwood tree-and more.

It'll be one of the prettiest and most "'ersatile woods in the world: smooth, straight, richly colored.

It'll be Green Redwood, Douglas Fir or Hem Fir: a renewable resource that lends its natural beauty to any setting.

It'll be rustic redwood siding, sappy cornnons, or garden grade lumbe4 kiln dried, air dried, milled with precision at G-Ps Ft.Bragg mill. And it will be professionally graded by RIS rules.

And its beauty will end up enhancing a deck, a fence, a house-and your bottom line.

For your redwood cnstomers, droose the redwood that has everything going for it: looks, promise, and a fine hmily narne. Choose G-P redwood. A member of the California Redwood Association.

For more information, call the Ft. Bragg mill, (707) 954-0281, or the G-P Distribution Center nearest you.

DAVID CUTLER editor- publisher

Here's a weapon, use it

llt HEN it comes to selling pressure treated UU wood, it's one product that doesn't lack for positive qualities. A number of these are set out in major features found throughout this issue.

The environmental aspect is one we'd like to see receive more emphasis.

It's a very simple concept: pressure treated wood greatly extends our nation's supply of wood. The stuff lasts so long that the savings in trees is really remarkable. One industry group, the Southern Forest Products Association, estimates that without pressure treated wood, an additional 226.000.000 merchantable trees would be required annually to replace decayed or termite infested wood products. As the product lasts a minimum of 30 years, the total number oftrees saved over that period is an astounding 6,700,000,000. That's b as in billion.

The statistic is an effective weapon to use to figuratively beat over the head radical environmentalists and other enemies of common sense. The idea that treated wood is helping America's forests is one you don't need a degree in forestry to understand.

An outdoor deck made of treated wood is likely to last as long as it takes to grow new trees to eventually replace it. Again, an idea that is both simple to present and easy to grasp.

Using one "treated tree" to do the work of many is an idea whose time has come. It is a positive talking point against those who seek to foil the sensible management of U.S. forests. We urge everyone to utilize the ideas presented here in sales talks, company advertising and brochures and all other communications with customers and the public.