"The Quiet Giant"

0 Giant in LongevityA major West Coast forest products wholesaler since 1926.

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Giant in IntegrityContinuing a tradi. tion of solid ethics.

Giant in ExperienceAn efficient, courteous staff-always reliable.

Giant in ServiceCargo, rail, truck and L.A. Harbor inventorv to fit vour needs.

The llerchant ilagazlne nomic and social consequences of the ruling, and options based on an industry owl study.

July 23U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service guidelines requiring Washington, Oregon and California governments and landowners to protect forest stands in which known owl pairs live became effective. These closed 3,960 acres on the Olympic Peninsula, 2,640 acres in the Washington Cascades, and 1000 to 1,360 acres in Oregon and California to timber harvesting.

July 23Environmentalists in Ukiah. Ca.. won a court order temporarily keeping Louisiana-Pacific Corp. from logging one of its last tracts of old growth forest in Mendocino County.

July 24l7 environmentalists including l0 whb chained themselves to a lumber company's gates were arrested in a Redwood Summer protest in Humboldt County.

Sept. IAnnouncement of a regional forest management plan for the next fiscal year by the administration appointed interagency task force due.

National's Losses Mount

Struggling to keep its footing amid record losses, bankrupt National Lumber & Supply, Fountain Valley, Ca., has closed three additional stores: Mira Mesa, Diamond Bar and Culver City, Ca.

Blaming growing competition, a slowdewn in home repair and $6.2 million in costs associated with closing its Santa Ana warehouse and a total of nine stores, National Lumber reported a fiscal year 1989 net loss of $18.5 million and a fiscal first quarter 1990 net loss of $6.5 million. Fiscal 1988's net loss was $4.6 million, first quarter 1989 $1.4 million.

The company has reduced administration staffby 200/o to about 90 people and plans to sell the leases of shuttered locations. The Fullerton store lease recently sold for $950,000.

The Garden Grove store is serving as the firm's experimental location for new displays and the Carson location has been turned into an outlet store.