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Your Job and Timber Supply

Retail lumber firms and their employees are being urged to protest proposals calling for annual timber supply reductions equal to 4.2 billion board feet of lumber.

Proposed management plans for federal forests will reduce timber harvests on federal forestlands not yet reserved for legislated Wilderness, scenic corridors or wildlife preservation or withdrawn from production. Most of this area is in the West where a majority of the Na- tional Forest and federally operated timberlands exist.

Two kinds of forest are evolving in that area. One is preserved to run through its natural cycles unhampered by man. The other is committed to broad multiple use, including access by 950/o of the forest using public as well as management for timber-for-products.

Industry spokesmen believe that the question of where the management lines are to be drawn between the two forest use concepts is becoming more politicized. The forest products industry is convinced that logic and reason have succumbed to heavy pressure against federal agencies by preservationists. Thousands of letters, many originating in cities far from the involved western forests, have been received by the forest planners. The bulk of such mail leans away from keeping the timber-for-products segments of the federalforests productive and accessible.

Industry recognizes that these activists are mostly well meaning people who have been misled into believing management for timberfor-products, even on federal lands,

August 1988 means forests sonrehow are being made to disappear altogether. lf all the forest products industry bands together. including those in the retail arm. it is felt that the activist efforts can be counterbalanced. The true facts about the necessity' of' continuous timber-forproducts productivity on into the future through proper management will help to do this.

A convenient way lor retail management to educate employees on what is happening is being provided by the Western Wood Products Association. The Retailer's In-House Employee Seminar Package on Timber Supply includes a l0-minute videotape summarizing the situation, plus a copy of the I 2-page Timber For Products At'tion Kit for each emplo-v.'ee. This is a publication designed to inform employees of the threat to their economic futures. It includes a model letter as well as a last-form letter lor communication to Washington, I).C. concerns about the timber supply shortage inherent in the proposed federal forest plans.

The package is available fiee of charge except for the postage to return the videotape if the retailer doesn't wish to keep it for $12. It may be ordered from WWPA. Yeon Building, 522 SW Fifth Ave.. Portland. Or. 91215.

Nevada Blast Keeps Cos. Busy

A huge explosion at a Henderson, Nv., chemical plant that caused about$75 million in damages throughout the area spurred a run on ply'wood and glass at local building product retailers.

"We sold out of most supplies," said Russell Milano, manager of Addison Inc., formerly Henderson Builders Supply in Henderson, noting the rush for materials to board up homes and businesses. "We served at least 150 new customers who never even knew we were here before."

The May 4 blast even damaged windows at Addison Inc.. but Milano said he was too busy filling orders for his customers to repair his own building.

While Houston Home Lumber. Las Vegas, Nv., was not cleaned out, the company did require special deliveries to keep pace with the demand.