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Lumber Association of California & Nevada's ipring calendar features: a2nd Growth meeting May 14 at the Sheraton Industry Hills, City of Industry, Ca.; yard foreman seminars May 19 in Sacramento and May 20 in City of Industry; owners

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"The forests must be, and will be, not only preserved but used, and ... made to yield a sure harvest of timber while at the same time all their far-reaching beneficent uses may be maintained unimpaired."

- John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club [ ] 895l seminar June 5-7 at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort, Indian Wells, Ca., and annual golf tournament June I I at the Paradise Valley Golf Course, Fairfield, Ca.

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Association's Young Westerners Club had I 14 attendees at its recent 29th annual conference in Tacoma, Wa.

John Humphrey, Humphrey Lumber, Tacoma, Wa., was elected new YWC president, succeeding Natasha Edscorn. Also new to the board: sec./treas. Mark Legg, Irrigators Lumber Co., Caldwell, Id., and trustees Andrew Thomas, Thomas Building Center, Sequim, Wa., and Keith Graul, Door Distributors, Kirkland. Wa.

Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association held its 1998 Products Expo & Building Materials Buying Show March 12-13 tn Denver, Co. Photo coverage appears on the next page.

Enviros Try Hand At Business

Two conservation groups have teamed up to buy about 4l square miles of timberland to manage as a commercial demonstration project.

The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Va., and Vermont Land Trust acquired 26,789 acres of timberland in Vermont and upstate New York, intent on proving that forestry can make money while protecting watersheds, wildlife, aesthetics, recreation values and logging and milling jobs.

"We have got to demonstrate that you can earn an economic rate of return on land while also protecting biodiversity," said Nature Conservancy president John Sawhill. "I really believe that if you don't manage forest holdings for both jobs and the environment. the environment is going to suffer in the long run."

The groups bough* the 23 land parcels from Atlas Timberland Co. for $5.5 million. $5 million of which came from a grant from the $630 million Freeman Foundation. Both the Nature Conservancy, the nation's 20th largest charitable organization, and the Trust hold conservation easements on over a million acres apiece.