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Steve Petracca was named president and c.e.o. of online LBM dealer Builder Depot, San Diego, Ca.

Jack Stewart has joined Powers Fasteners Inc. as Denver, Co., branch mgr.

Ron Gelbrich, Cascade Hardwood, Chehalis. Wa.. has been elected a director of the Hardwood Manufacturers Association. David Weyerhaeuser, Northwest Hardwoods, Federal Way, Wa., was elected to the executive committee.

Lee Thomas, president, GeorgiaPacific Corp., has been named to the added position of chief operating officer. David Paterson is the new executive v.p. of the building products businesses.

Michael Haining has been named senior v.p.-distribution and logistics for TruServ Corp.

Gail Hatle, controller, Peterman Lumber. Fontana. has retired after more than 20 Years.

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Gary Donnelly has resigned after 12 years as president of the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association. Vicki Worden is serving as interim president during the search for a replacement.

Craig Maginness is new to Johns Manville Roofing Systems Group, Denver, Co., as director of the contractor services group.

Garrett Momburg, rental center general mgr., Pacific Home Do it Center, San Luis Obispo, Ca., recently became the l000th participant in Do it Best Corp.'s four-day rental training schooi.

Ed Gale, sales. Stockton Wholesale Lumber, Stockton, Ca., is back to work after open-heart surgery.

Tommy Gunn, outside rep, MungusFungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., is returning from his Army reserve stint in Iraq, report Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

Palco Tears Down Historic Mill

Pacific Lumber Co. has begun dismantling its shuttered, 93-year-old Mill B in Scotia. Ca.

The massive structure had become a safety hazard and was expensive to maintain. Palco closed the mill in May 2001 and auctioned off its giant head rigs and band saws last year.

"The decision was that there was far greater opportunity with the building down than with the building up," said spokesman Jim Branham. He noted that although there are no immediate plans for the site, Palco is trying to attract new businesses to the old mill town and the building was unsuitable for other uses.

The structure was built from huge redwood beams and a large quantity of old growth lumber. Branham said the lumber salvaged should more than pay for the cost of the dismantling.

Blueprints As Marketing Tool

Associated Press will now allow building product companies to advertise in its study plans and blueprints purchased by customers of the AP House of the Week.

AP's weekly home plan is distributed to 1,600 AP member newspapers and study plans bought by homeowners represent a potential construction of nearly $250 million in new homes.

"We think there is a place for advertising in our home plans," said home plan publisher David Bradley. "Advertising is an additional source of legitimate information for readers."

Wa. Cities In Big Box Feud

A dispute over who will host the area's first big box home center has the cities of Walla Walla and College Place, Wa., trading litigation shots.

In late March, Walla Walla said it planned to take lead agency status over a proposed Home Depot in College Place, which led College Place officials in April to file a complaint in Superior Court against a proposed Lowe's in Walla Walla.

College Place asked the court to mandate Walla Walla make a study of traffic impact and that they refuse the city any construction permits.

"College Place is doing exactly what they had accused us of doing, which is delaying the project," said Walla Walla city manager Duane Cole.

Walla Walla's bid to oversee the proposed Home Depot in College Place was the result of College Place not addressing issues of traffic flow and jurisdictional wetlands, according to Walla Walla officials.

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Final Days For N.M. Sawmill

Unless a buyer can be found, New Mexico's last major sawmill will close permanently June 7.

Rio Grande Forest Products, Espanola, attributes the shutdown to low timber prices and a shortage of large logs.

Although the mill was retrofitted in the mid-1990s to mill smaller trees, it could be retooled further to cut even smaller, 6" to 11" diameter timbers or to produce wood chips, according to Jack Beverage.

The facility employs 87 and has been producing 160,000 bd. ft. of timber daily since reopening in January after a two-month curtailment.

The operation, a subsidiary of Idaho Timber Corp. was purchased from Duke City Lumber.

Ganahl Gets lts Wings

Ganahl Lumber Co., Anaheim, Ca., has begun building wood targets for air forces around the world at its Corona, Ca, mill.

The mill is currently building 1,200

3'xl6' towable targets, called "wings," that are towed 1,500 yards behind airplanes, allowing other fighter aircraft to shoot at them with paint pellets as part of accuracy testing.

Mill manager Travis Long said the contractor is supplying all of the lumber, glue, staples and staple guns.

Ganahl's contribution includes: creating the template for the wing's frames: cutting the clear sugar pine. and then sizing and stapling it together; getting the wings back after another company has added an aluminum cover, and finally adding holes and routing a beveled edge on the wings.

The finished wings are shipped to militaries in Malaysia, Brazil, Spain, India, Egypt and South Korea.

"There is a good chance that this current job could turn into a 13,000wings-per-year job with this contractor," added Long.

No Takers For Timber Sale

Sierra-Pacific Industries irked environmentalists last month when it failed to bid on the larsest timber sale in

California's Stanislaus National Forest in two years.

The criticism came as the Redding, Ca.-based firm closed its Chinese Camp, Ca., small-log sawmill for three weeks claiming, in part, a decline in logging on national forests.

SPI's Chris Conrad said the company did not bid on the sale because it wasn't economically viable to do so.

In fact, no company bid on the largest timber sale in the Stanislaus forest in two years. The U.S. Forest Service estimated the sale would provide 6 million bd. ft. of timber. Much of the 14,200-acre area was burned in a 2001 wildfire.

John Buckley of the Sierra Central Environmental Resource Center said the lack of bids shows that "there really isn't a market demand for much in the way of Forest Service timber. It's mostly rhetoric that the timber industry wants more wood."

Sierra Club's Warren Alford claimed global timber prices were at play in the decision to temporary close the Chinese Camp mill.

SPI officials noted the sale was contingent on many complicating factors, including building $155,000 worth of roads, removing vegetation that can't be used as logs, and extracting logs by helicoptel-4n slpsnsivs procedure.

Conrad also added that much of the burned timber in the area deteriorated. The Forest Service said it will reassess the sale proposal, dropping certain requirements.

Firms Expected To Invest

North American forest products companies are expected to increase spending in fiscal year 2003 on plant, properties and equipment.

A survey of 39 companies tallied expected expenditures at $8.1 billion, an ll.6Vo increase over spending during2002.

Last year the same comPanies sPent $7.3 billion. $2.1 billion less than in the previous year.

California Mulls Logging Limits

The California state legislature is now considering a 10bill package that looks to give local water quality boards more discretion to block logging proposals, restrict logging along creeks and require regulators to consider the broader impact of cutting tress on specific watersheds.

The California timber industry strongly opposes the measures.

"That package, in its entirety, spells complete devastation for our industry," said the California Forestry Association's Mark Rentz. "Every one of those bills has serious economiO ramifications."

Advocates of the bill say they expect no adverse effect on the timber industry.

Lawmakers supporting the bills further add that the measures are needed because the Bush Administration is pushing new policies from the federal level that would double the amount of timber removed from the state's national forests.

Rentz argued that the proposed bill would simply add more environmental quality rules to a state that already has the strictest in the nation.

D-l-Yers Have Their Cash ln Place

A new survey of homeowners indicates that Americans will invest significantly in home improvement projects this spring.

The American Express survey of 341 households found that the average home improvement budget this year is $3,800. The figure is a big jump from 2000 when the annual d-i-yer's budget was estimated at $2,900.

Homes with an income of $50.000 or more are exoected to spend nearly $4,300.

With summer approaching, 44Vo of respondents said that home improvement spending was a higher priority than taking a vacation (20Vo) or dining and entertainment (l5%o). This is up from 33Vo in2000.

According to the survey, T3Vo of homeowners will spend their d-i-y dollars at home improvement centers, followed by department stores and then hardware stores. Only 67o of those surveyed plan to shop at a lumberyard or specialty retailer.

The survey found that home owners will use nearly half (447o) of this budget for interior decorating, followed by remodeling, landscaping and other critical maintenance.

Less than 2O7o said they would tackle exterior house decor, add a room or expand a deck or patio this year.

When picking projects and materials, two-thirds of respondents said price determined where they shopped, followed by selection, service and location.

The survey also found that homeowners are tuning in more to home improvement shows-44%o now as opposed to 38Vo three years ago.

Days after a $79 million jury verdict that found Weyerhaeuser Co. guilty of illegally monopolizing the alder industry, five other Northwest mills filed lawsuits against the Federal Way. Wa.-based timber giant.

Westwood Lumber, Reedsport, Or.; Morton Alder, Willamina, Or.; Cascade Hardwoods, Chehalis, Wa., and Alexander Lumber Mill, Onalaska, Wa., are seeking damages estimated in excess of $100 million. The mill owners also want wide-ranging injunctive relief and a courtordered breakup of Weyerhaeuser's alder division.

A second lawsuit was filed by B.C.-based Coast Mountain Hardwoods, which is seeking $500 million dollars in damages.

The flood of litigation follows a jury's decision to award Ross-Sim- mons Hardwood Lumber Co., Longview, Wa.,$79 million. RossSimmons, which went out of business in 2001, claimed Weyco bought large quantities of red alder to deprive competitors of logs.

"We think it sends a positive message to the small alder mills that continue to compete against Weyerhaeuser," said Ross Simmons' attorney, Mike Kelley.

Several days after the ruling, Weyerhaeuser said it would dispute the decision, claiming that information given to the jury was informing and led to an unfair ruling.

"We continue to believe we competed fairly in the marketplace," said Weyerhaeuser's Robert A. Dowdy.

Not finished either, Ross-Simmons went back to court in late April to try to unseal sensitive corporate docu- ments related to the case. "(We) have secured a successful verdict, but the record in this case is so damning of Weyerhaeuser's corporate behavior that is imperative that it be made available to the public, the press, and appropriate law enforcement agencies," said the plaintiffs in a letter to U.S. district court judge Owen Panner. According to the original lawsuit, there were 40 alder mills in Oregon and Washington in 1980. When Weyerhaeuser entered the market, it bought Northwest Hardwoods' two mills, and by 1995 it controlled 657o of the market. By 2001, the suit claims, Weyerhaeuser occupied 7 57o of the market.

Man Threatens Palco Workers

Pacific Lumber Co. employees harvesting trees near Freshwater, Ca., were recently approached by a man