CALENDAR

September

Yakima Hardware Co. - Sept. 11-12, market, Yakima, Wa.

Jensen-Byrd Co. - Sept. 1l-13, rnarket" Spokane, Wa.

Western Wood Products Associatlon - Sept. l1-14, fall meeting, Hotel del Coronado, San Diego, Ca.

Hoo-Hoo lnternatlonal - Sept. 12-15, international convention, Holiday Inn City Cenhe, Sioux Falls, S.D.

California Redwood Association - Sept. 14, annual meeting, Eureka Inn, Eureka. Ca.

North Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club - Sept. 14, golf outing & meeting, Skagit Valley Golf & Country CIub, Burlington, Wa.

Archltectural Woodwork Instltute - Sept. 16-18, annual meeting, St. louis, Mo.

lnland Emplre Hoo-Hoo Club - Sept. 17, election meeting, San Dimas Counky Club, San Dimas, Ca.

Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California - Sept. 17. mill tour. Collins Pine. Chester. Ca.

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Phoenlx Hoo-Hoo Club - Sept. 17-18, golf & banquet, Rio Rico Resort & Country Club, Rio Rico, Az.

Quojem - Sept. 19-22, international hardware, tools & d-i-y show, Paris-Nord Exhibition Grounds, Paris, France.

Buildlng lndustry Credit Association - Sept. 23,lien law seminars, Radisson Hotel, City of Commerce, Ca.

Morse Hardware Co. - Sept. 26-27, annual buying show, Red Lion SeaTac Inn, Seattle, Wa.

American Plywood Associatlon - Sept. 26-28, annual meeting, Westin La Paloma Hotel, Tucson, Az.

North American Wholesale Lumber Association - Sept.26Oct.2, wood marketing seminar, Athens, Ga.

American Wood Preservers Institute - Sept. 29-Oct, 1, annual convention, Boca Raton Resort & Club, Boca Raton, Fl. Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Association - Sept. 29-Oct,2, fall conference. Benson Hotel. Portland, Or.

October

Kltchen & Bath Buildlng/Remodeling Conference & ShowOct. 1-3, Sands Expo & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nv.

National Wood Floorlng Assoclatlon - Oct. 5-6 hardwood flooring retail sales seminar, Seattle, Wa.

National Bullding Materlal Distributors Association - Oct. l012, annual convention, Anaheim Hilton & Towers, Anaheim, Ca.

Western Remodellng Conference & Exposition - Oct. 10-12, sponsored by National Association of Remodeling Industry, Riviera Hotel & Conference Center, Las Vegas, Nv.

Butlding Industry Credlt Association - Oct. 12, credit seminars, Anaheim Holiday Inn, Anaheim, Ca.

International D-t-Y Trade Show - Oct, 14-17, Madrid Trade Fair's Juan Carlos/Exhibition Centre, Madrid, Spain.

Ace Hardware - Oct. 16-19, fall convention & expo, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nv.

Door & Hardware lnstitute - Oct. 16-19, annual meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Hardware Wholesalers Inc. - Oct. 16.19. market. Indiana Convention/Exposition Center, Indianapolis, In.

National Hardwood Lumber Association - Oct. 16-19, annual convention, Loews Anatole, Dallas, Tx.

North American Wholesale Lumber Association - Oct. 19, regional meeting, Orange, Ca.; Oct.20, Portland, Or.

L-P Adds To Mexican Plants

Louisiana-Pacific plans to build a cement fiber roof shakes manufacturing plant near Ensenad4 Mexico.

Made of a combination of cement, fly ash, sawdust and shavings, the cement fiber shakes are popular in California and the Southwest because of their long life and fire resistance. When the plant is completed by mid1994,it will employ about 60 people.

The new plant will be part of the El Sauzal, Mexico, complex which currently includes a lumber drying yard, a planing mill, a millwork plant and a plant that makes decorative and paving bricks. Louisiana-Pacific Mexican subsidiaries operate all tlese plants.

The roofing plant will have the capacity to make 180,000 squares of shakes per year. A square is the number of shakes needed to cover 100 square feet of finished roof area. A typical home uses about 10 squares of shakes.

PWT Files Chapter 11

Pacific Wood Treating Corp., Ridgefield, Wa., and its subsidiary Niedenneyer-Martin Co. have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

The companies have made large reductions in personnel and temporarily suspended treating operations, but continue remanufacturing operations.

"We hope to restructure and be back on track as quickly as possible," said newly named president Dan Clare. He succeeds Edward Niedermeyer, who has retired after 45 years in the business.

Look Down On Advertising

A clever new in-store advertising system has just been introduced to keep your message in front - or at least underneath - your shoppers.

Indoor Media Group has devised 2'x2' "In-Floor" panels that can be placed in the flooring of store aisles. Ads are easily changed and require ordinary floor cleaning and polishing.

Southwest Old Growth High

Claims that Southwest forests arc overlogged are untrue according to a U.S. Forest Service report.

Surveys have found as many old growth trees in New Mexico and Arizona national forests as 30 years ago with forestland inoeasing 57o, or rrror€ than 500,000 acres, between L962 nd 1986. Fire protection has altered tie forest composition with more fir and fewer aspen and ponderosa pines.

AND GO TO WASTE. PUT THEM IN A HOME. (AS 2X4 STUDS, WOOD W|NDOWS, WOOD MOULDINGS, WOOD DOORS, ETC.)

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Matt Moulder

About a month ago, a letter to the editor was printed in the Lake Tahoe Tribune that we would like lo pass on. Tlp editorlitled it "An Excellent Plan lor Bodent Homes and Fungi.'

"Dear Editor: The Forest Seruice is phnning to cut down dead and dying trees in ttn vicinity of Angora Ririge. Environmenlal radicals trel lhat a few large trees may be cul down during thb process. As an environmentally concerned taxpayer, I demand lhat these old traes be cut dorn. They are worth from several hundred dollars to over a thousand dollars eadt and the lederal lteasury is in dire need ol the lunds. Radicals argue thal il the large lrees are left lo rot and die they will becorne home to rodents and create fungilor plants and various uganisms to thrive on.

Why not aI the hrge trees doivn and tum them inlo lumber that will be used lor homebuiHing in lieu d metal prodrrcts lhat cause ah pllntion in the manufacturing process? Then we can use governmenl lunds to hire oul-otwork loggers lo make lungi and artilicial rodenl habitat. The rats will never know the diflerence from the real thing and the public will be belter served. Also, the spotted owls living in the secondgrowth forests where scienlists say they aren't supposed lo be living can come over to Angora Ridge lo feast on the rodents.

Everyone wirs in thb phn, except perhaps the logger who would nther be making $15 per hour setling choker than $5 per hor making rodenl habital and lungi.'

Another interesting tidbil concerning our industry was recenlly spdled in a major Noilhem Calilornia newspaper. An editorial pointed out that the liltle (spotted) owl appears lo b€ thriving now in second growth trees. Better to move away lrom this kind of emolional symbolbm and locus on overall habilal." At hst the publ'rc is being told that the spotted orl 'crisis" was a con job.

It was reported the other day that George Frampton, U.S, Assistant Secrelary ol the Interior lor Fish, Wildlife & Parks, supporls the idea that the marbeled munelel should be chssilied as an endangered species in the U.S. This in spite of there being lhousands ol them in neighbuing Bdtislr Columbia. Prior to being appoinled to this post by President Clinton, George Frampton was president of the Wilderness Society.

Several importanl government posls in Washingon, D.C., are held by persons who were lormer otlicers or prominenl members ol green organizatiors such as lhe Wildemess Society. I may be wrong, but I think lumbermen and their associales were passed over when appointments to governmenl positions were made. Perhaps they were excluded because theh ophbm might b€ viewed as being biased.

Even in Arkansas, where farming and logging is all they have going lor them, lhe lumber industry is under siege by the enviro radicals. Federal governmenl spokesmen lhere say thal tirn ber programs in the Ouachita and Ozark-St. Francis National Foresls lost $2 million in 1992. The Siena Club says this ligure is $13 million. The supervisor of the Ouachila National Forest coun tered, "ll we losl that kind ol money, I ought to be in jail.' Meanwhile, a person representing indus lry responded with a criticism that we dont hear often enough: "ln 1992 wildlile and recreation costs for the Ouachita and Ozark-Sl. Francis forests lotaled $9 million with no return to the treasury." By contrasl, the logging adivities yielded income to the treasury and sevenal times that amount to the local communilies in lhe way of wages, with indirect benelits to shopkeepers, sup pliers of logging and sawmill equipmenl, parls, luel, elc., and many others.

Another thing we dont hear enough about with regad lo the prolit or loss on timber sales is the lact that 25% ol the revenue kom the sale of government limber goes lo local s$ools and roads. Most businesses would be hard pressed to show a profit if they gavs away 25% otl top.