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Dow Recharges Buildscape

Dow Chemical, previously a minority shareholder in the e-commerce firm, has acquired full ownership of Buildscape from holding company Riverside Group.

Stephen Wilson, c.e.o. of struggling 95-unit Wickes Lumber. is also Riverside's c.e.o. and majority owner.

Dow said its goal is to expand Buildscape, not to shut it down. Buildscape, which once had nearly 200 workers, now employs fewer than one quarler that amount.

FBI Nabs Depot Scam Trio

Three illegal Irish nationals may face federal charges and deportation after beins arrested in June for allegedly scamming Home Depots across the nation of approximately $400.000.

Arrested in San Leandro, Ca., John Hay, 55; Linda Broderick, 48, and Anthony Davenport, 46, apparently toured the country in a van and a26-ft. trailer for which they paid cash.

According to San Leandro police, the trio replaced Depot bar codes with homemade forgeries that rang up items at a significant discount. They then returned the items for the full price, netting themselves a lucrative cash refund. In January the suspects moved to gift certificates after Depot stopped issuing cash for returns.

Police say that Home Depots in San Leandro, Emeryville, Livermore,

Pleasanton, Hayward and Union City,

Ca., lost a total of $10,000, in addition to another $8,000 bilked from Contra Costa County, Ca., stores.

In addition to Home Depots in the South, the trio hit stores in Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Arizona.

"It's a brilliant scam, but the big thing about it is that they made the money in seven months," said San Leandro police detective Kathy Pickard. "Thejust got really big, fast."

Officials speculate the scam dates back to October 2001.

Police have seized a total of $750,000 in Canadian and U.S. bank accounts.

Ecuador Deports " Butterf ly"

Activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill, who previously spent two years atop a Pacific Lumber Co.-owned redwood tree, was deported from Ecuador after her arrest for protesting an oil pipeline, according to an environmental group.

"She was taken very violentlY in the morning to the airport, escorted by l0 police officers and then forced to board a plane to Panama," said a fellow protester.

Police arrested Hill and eight Ecuadoreans while they protested outside the Quito office of Occidental Petroleum, a member of the consortium building a 300-mile pipeline that cuts through a nature reserve.

Hill climbed to fame five years ago by camping in a Northern California old-growth redwood she called "Luna" to keep it from being harvested. She came down in 1999, and Palco vowed to spare the tree.

Ft tlv the end of last year, all 2.3 million acres of Boise's U.S. timberlands had undergone intensive third-party environmental audits. The results? Our lands were certified as meeting or even exceeding all SFl" Standards. Now. we're working toward new and even higher standards recently adopted by the SFI program. That's one way of pursuing our goal of continuous improvement in forestry practices. Another way is through our own Forest Stewardship Program, which uses these audits and an advisory council of independent exoerts to recommend further improvements.

Our efforts to ensure the protection of wildlife, plants, and soil, and water and air quality are now certified to be working. Of equal importance, in the past 10 years, timber growth on our lands has exceeded harvests by 9o/o on average. That means you can continue to look to Boise for quality wood products from healthy, wel l-managed forests now and into the future.

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Cypress Millwork Makes lts Stand

Despite a continuing trend away fiom wood siding, more people are putting cypress back inside their homesfbr moulding, paneling and other interior applications.

Although cypress is best known for exterior uses, one well known manufacturer thinks the wood's aesthetic and machining properties are such that he wouldn't mind if all cypress were used indoors.

"Cypress is beginning to recapture markets it lost 20 years ago," says Tom Reke, Coastal Lumber Co., Weldon, N.C. "We're excited to see more and more people viewing it for applications other than as a workhorse for exteriors. They see how well it finishes and appreciate its natural beauty. They like the lighter, airier color, which is a very hot trend right now. And, it mills well."

Agrees Donald Elder, Elder Forest Products, Crowley, La.: "Cypress is a moderately hard wood, inherently stable. It glues well, sands and planes excellently, and, of course, you can stain it or finish it much nicer than cedar or redwood because it doesn't have that dark color. Millwork manufacturers like it because whereas other species are having to ship shorter lengths, we can ship longer lengths."

Reke attributes the trend, in part, to "the cedar situation. Cypress is price competitive."

The resurgence has been eye-opening, especially for consumers, says Reke. "You ask the average Joe, and he thinks cypress is extinct or protected. He doesn't realize how much of a good selection is available," Reke says.

Elder also cites competitive pricing and workability as key factors in cypress' growth. Elder Forest Products, which uses cypress for moulding blanks, recently intro-