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Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association is sponsoring golf tournaments June l5 in Buffalo, Wy.; July l5 at the Ranch Golf & Country Club, Westminster, Co., and Sept. 6 at the Rifle Creek Golf Course, Rifle, Co.

Lumber Association of California & Nevada has enlisted Jerry Wilson, CSP, to address "How to Get New Customers and Keep Them for Life...at Little or No Cost" during the 2nd Growth summer conference July 19-21 at the La Quinta Resort & Club, La Quinta, Ca.

Western Building Material Association executive diretor Casey Voorhees was joined by president Curtis Jack, Coquille Supply, Coquille, Or.; lst v.p. Bruce Abel, Don Abel Building Supply, Juneau, Ak.; Bob and Pat Jacobsen, Lloyd Lumber, Nampa, Id.; Bob and Becky

Perrin, Capital Lumber, Boise, Id.; Bob and Phyllis Kerr, Kerr's Ace Hardware, Brookings, Or.; Brian McGuire, Lumbermen's Building Centers, Yakima, Wa.; Rand and Darlene Thomas, Thomas Building Center, Sequim, Wa., and David Still, Weyerhaeuser, Federal Way, Wa., at National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association's Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C.

SmallWorld For ldaho Mill

After a year of breaking even and bucking the odds, a small diameter sawmill is ready for a second shift and new workers.

Plummer Forest Products, Plummer, Id., adds a second shift this month, betting that pines, fir and hemlock as skinny as 4" in diameter can keep the company afloat.

"We're probably the only sawmill around that doesn't like big logs," said president Todd Brinkmeyer.

Located on the site of a former Rayonier mill destroyed by fire in 1998, the mill produces standard 2x4s and lx3s, with an output projected at 50 million bd. ft. for this year.

The mill has found a comfortable alliance with the U.S. Forest Service, which thins small trees in the nearby Idaho Panhandle National Forests, trying to recreate the open stands of big timber that once existed throughout the area.

Brinkmeyer says speed is another key to the mill's success, pointing out that 10,000 logs are processed during an eight-hour shift.

Another factor helping Plummer is the depressed chip market, which has allowed them to obtain small logs that normally end up at paper mills.

Stimson Timber, Portland, Or., and Potlatch, Spokane, Wa., also benefit Plummer by selling them logs that are too small for their own operations.

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