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The unique qualities of solid-sawn timber

Wnrn your building specs call for the exquisite look of exposed beams, solid-sawn timber has no equal. At All-Goast Forest Products, we've made it a specialty since we opened our doors in 1975. We can deliver solid-sawn timbers lrom our own (Ph0t0bvGater) inventory ol Douglas lir, redwood and western red cedar in dillerent cerlified grades, linishes and sizes-with Douglas lir up to 40 feet in length. We can meet exact specilications, and our expert crattsmen can add any kind ol corbel detail you desire, saving the expense and difficulty ol iob-site corbel cutting.

For timely delivery, precise customization and quality you can count 0n, turn to All-Coast for all yout solid-sawn timber and other lumber needs.

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The Woman In The Tlee

When the environmental movement first emerged in an amalgam of hair, pot smoke and idealism in the 1960s, many in the forest products industry saw it as a passing fad.

While much good has undeniably emerged, it has also engendered a host of questionable concepts generally accepted by a gullible public, such as global warming, animal rights and, of course, no tree cutting.

The forest products industry tried to appeal to public opinion with a calm, rational, truthful message. The other side uses emotionalism and highly suspect statistics.

That emotionalism is winning can be seen by the favorable publicity enjoyed by a 24-year-old woman who has trespassed on Pacific Lumber Company land in California's Humboldt County since December. Ensconced 100 feet high on a small platform, she has vowed to remain until Palco promises not to cut the huge redwood tree.

Some background: Julia "Butterfly" Hill, the offspring of a travelling preacher in Arkansas, grew up in the back of a camper truck and worked as a bartender until she got the call to "heal the planet." Whatever that means. She has named the tree Luna (the word root here is lunatic) and claims Luna talks to her. The Earth First! collective in nearby Arcata keeps her supplied. That Pacific Lumber Company has not had them all arrested (or worse) shows admirable restraint.

The potential for trouble implicit in environmental activism, however, was tragically illustrated in the apparently accidental death last month of a logging protester, a 24'year-old Texan who was killed by a falling tree.

The Pacific Lumber Company, which has a 129-year record of responsible management of its lands, is a favorite target of radicals who prefer to ignore that positive record for their own, skewed views.

We suspect future generations will look back on these times and wonder what was the matter with all of us.