problems

Declining Forest Service sales and harvest, he added, "blindly ignore not only the reality of rising wood demand but also the very real fact of thousands of acres of dying and wasting timber here in the West."

Richards charged that whereas the Forest Service will sell approximately l0 billion board feet of timber in 1976, "it is estimated that another 6 billion feet will die. an intolerable waste that should not be allowed to go on."

He dismissed preservationist suggestions that a substantial harvest increase now would rob future generations. "Quite the opposite, this increase will prepare commercial timberland to provide much more wood fiber for our children and grandchildren than we have today."

The APA annual meeting was attended by more than 660 members and guests from all parts of the country.

New officers are: chairman of the board of trustees, John M. Richards, v.p., Western div., Potlatch Corp., Lewiston, Id.; president, Ward K. Hoseid, v.p. & gen. manager, Great Southern Plywood Co., Cedar Springs, Ga.; V.p., Frank V. Langfitt, Jr., v.p.-building .products div., GeorgiaPacific Corp., Portland, Or.

Trustees elected to the board: John W. Anderson, Gold Rey Forest Products, Beaverton, Or.; William E. Butler, U. S. Plywood, Eugene, Or.; Mawin W. Coats, Willamette Industries, Portland; John J. Connors, Simpson Timber Co., Seattle; Stacy Cooke, Temple Industries, Diboll, Tx.; Don Deardorff, Fourply, Inc:, Grants Pass, Or.; Ralph G. De Moisy, Fibreboard Corp., San Francisco; J. Bruce Fulton, Crown Zellerbach, Portland; Robert K. Hood, International Paper Co., Longview, Wa.; E. W. Hughes, Boise Cascade, Boise, Id.; Quay Jorgensen, Centralia Plywood & Veneer Co., Centralia, Wa.; Clyde R. Kalahan, Weyerhaeuser Co., Tacoma, Wa.; Peter H. Koehler, Evans Products Co., Portland; Neal McCloud, Delta Industries, Jackson, Ms.; Lyle K. McDonald, Linnton Plywood Assn., Portland; John Martinson, Publishers Forest Products Co., Anacortes, Wa.; Roland Mill, Fort Vancouver Plywood Co., Vancouver, Wa.; S. E. Pittman, Bohemia Inc., Eugene, Or.; Edward L. Quirk, Southwest Forest Industries, Phoenix, Az.; and John H. Schick, Louisiana-Pacific Com., Portland.

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