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Allen McDevitt log sawmill and temporarily closed its small log mill, possibly to be reopened in mid-November.

Taylor Lumber & Treating, [nc., Beaverton, Or., has eliminated the swing shift at its Sheridan, Or., mill though it continues to operate on a single shift basis. Murphy Creek Lumber Co. has auctioned off its Grants Pass, Or., mill.

John Day Lumber Co., John Day, Or., has closed its mill while it seeks a buyer.

McGrary Honored And Attacked

An award cer€mony tumed into an ecology debate when Earth First! protesters assailed Bud McCrary, Big Creek Lumber Co., Davenport, Ca., as he was named the state's leading forester by the California Department of Forestry.

The protesters focused their attack on 4,200 acres in San Mateo County recently purchased by Big Creek. McCrary spent nearly an hour patiently explaining the company's environmentally balanced plans, repeatedly invited the "uninformed" critics to tour the arca.

Over the years, Big Creek and the McCrary family have donated large tracts of timber to the state palks system, and the company has been cited by both logging and conservation groups as a model of ecologically sound harvesting.

In presenting the Francis H. Raymond Award to Mccrary, forestry board chairman Woody Bames said, "We're really pleased to compliment him both as a forester and for operating under very difficult conditions."

November 1991

Home Sales lmprovement Due

Sales of homes in California will pull out of a three yeal slump in 1992 with modest improvement and median home price increases if a California Association of Realtors forecast is accurate.

Despite some national economists not agreeing that the consumer is becoming more optimistic, realtors see single family home resales in the state up 4Vo in 1992 with condominium sales up 2.5Vo. Median price of a single family resale home will rise to $206,000 next year fiom the expected $198,000 l99l price with condos climbing to $150,000 from $146,000, they predict.

The increases would be the first year to year jumps in California since 1989, according to the association.

Callfornla Housing Predictlon

An optimistic prediction of about 100,000 housing starts per year fueled by demand for 60,000 rental units annually is predicted for California during the next five years.

A group of real estate economists sees a possible 500,000 home shortfall in the state by 1996 with as many as

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595,000 new residents arriving annually to fill a projected average of 250,000 new jobs by 1993. However affordable housing will be the key to maintaining this job growth, immigrant rate and subsequent economic recovery.

Although housing normally follows new jobs, a lack of homes in the $75,000 to $150,000 range could kill economic growth in California if companies hesitate to open in areas where employees can't find housing. City and county governments must foster building of apartments and multi-family dwellings, the report says. Many of the immigrants are expected to come from Pacific Rim and Latin American countries.

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APA Sees Shortages Spreading

Against a business climate of projected slow r€covery, American Plywood Association members were warned at the group's 55th annual meeting that environmentalists are committed to shutting down the wood products industry everywhele.

APA chairman John Galloway, Hood Industries, Hattiesburg, Ms., said too many in the South look at current western timber supply problems and say to themselves, "too bad, but better them than us."

"These people don't lealize that them is us and us is them," he said. He added that at the current 57o annual rate of preselvationist-inspired land withdrawals, the South could lose access to half the region's public folests by the year 2000.

"We are short-sighted if we take only a corporate view or a regional view because the environmental movement has taken a long view for the entile country," said Galloway, rallying fol a unified, grassroots effort.

APA also predicted U.S. structural panel industly production of 26.5 billion sq. ft., 3/8" basis in 1992 up 9Vc from the 24.3 billion expected for t99t.

About 400 attended the Sept. 29Oct. I meeting at the Red LionJantzen Beach, Portland, Or.

New Forest Laws In Oregon

Major environmental legislation adding new protection fol fish and wildlife, intensifying reforestation lequirements, regulating logging along scenic highways and limiting the size of logging units went into effect in Oregon Sept. 28.

Drafted and lobbied by members and staff of the Oregon Folest Indusnjes Council (OFIC), a state$'ide association of private forest landowners, the new laws were approved 8l-l by Oregon lawmakers. In addition, the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, which will tax the industry to support public education about folestly, was approved.

OFIC will use the institute to tell the industry's story in a state that has become increasingly urban. People know less and less about logging, milling and forest products although Oregon is the nation's No. I supplier of softwood timber, according to Wald Armstlong, executive dilector, at the OFIC office in Salern.

Southern Pine In California

Southem pine continued its invasion of Southern California markets with a Southeln Pine Malketing Council presentation at a Georgia-Pacific product showcase in Anaheim, Ca.

SFPA marketing managels Jeff Easterling and Durand Darbyshire had an audience of 57 architects, builders, developers, retailers and salespeople from G-P distribution centers in

Southern Califomia for their display of southern pine products and grades. The portable exhibit booth offered the latest literature on southern pine as well as a retailer video.

A second briefing was given to the personnel of Western Wood Treating Co., Fontana, Ca. This facility has been treating southern pine for the deck market for almost a year.

Wlndow Ratlng Procedure

The first uniform procedure for rating the thermal performance of windows, doors, skylights and other fenestration products regardless of material type or product size has been published by the National Fenestration Rating Council.

This is the first of a series uniformly characterizing and rating all fenestration product thermal properties. A unique combination of computer simulation and physical testing, the procedure enables a manufacturer to provide U-values for products.

"The importance of this achievement cannot be understated," said Michael Koenig, Andersen Windows, advanced research manager. "Establishing a procedure to rate thermal performance in a uniform manner has long been needed by the manufacturing community."

Shades / Blinds Rolling Upwad

Shipments of window and wallcoverings by U.S. producers are predicted to tise 6Vo annually through 1995, according to a Freedonia Group study.

Shades, blinds and altemative window coverings have the best growth prospects, due to their convenience, affordability, enhanced styling and aesthetics. Venetian blinds, the window coverings success story of the

1980s, continue to increase steadily, with continuing product innovations at both the fashion conscious (wood blinds, colored vertical blinds) and price conscious (plastic mini-blinds) ends of the market.

Conventional window shades comprise mature markets and generally lack the fashion qualities of competitive window coverings. Yet innovations such as pleated and honeycombed shades will add small gains, along with altemative coverings such as woven wooden window treatments, rattan and bamboo coverings, shutters and louvers and decorative awnings.

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The customers also received a technical briefing on the remodeling and an update on the cunent timber supply situation,

"Clearly, Oregon is going to continue to provide a major percentage of America's timber products," noted Walters. "We wanted our customers to see how well we are positioned to provide a steady supply of quality products from these plants."

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The western states supplied MVo of the lumber and 33Vo of the plywood consumed in the United States during 1990, a year in which markets were depressed. Current federal timber management policies indicate a clear trend to reduce to 40Vo or less the his-

Insulated Roof Deck Study

A snrdy to determine the effect of insulation and radiant baniers on shingle surfaces and under-shingle temperatures is expected to reduce potential problems with insulated roof decks. Insulated roof decks are being used on houses with cathedral ceilings and other residential and light commer-

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As always, the consumer and taxpayer will pay the ultimate cost of current federal timber management policies. Alternative timbel sources to offset this fabricated shofiage arc not economically available anywherc in the world.

Jim Walter Research Corp. will conduct outdoor exposure tests on shingles applied to both insulated and uninsulated roof decks, measuring the effects of temperature and weather conditions for 30 days. In addition, randomly selected shingles will be tested for physical properlies. News Briefs

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Weyerhaeuser's third quarter income fell 44Vo...Boise Cascade had a third quarter loss of $14.3 million. ..Potlatch's wood products group had third quarter earnings of $14 million, compared to a $1.5 million loss in l990...Manville Corp.lost $12.4 million in the third quarter...western lumber production through mid-October was 16.126 billion board feet, compared to 17.919 billion b.f. a year ago, according to Western Wood Products Association.

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Task Force Stalks Tree Thefts

A National Timber Task Force has been created by the U.S. Forest Service to investigate allegations of timber theft and accounting irregularities in the national forests on the West Coast.

A Sacramento office opened last month with a Portland, Or., satellite office due to open before the end of the year. The investigation is expected to be in full force by Jan. l, according to Hank Kashdan, task force chief.

A budget of about $2 million annually has been established for 25 employees for a minimum of three years. "Our goal is to examine log accountability from a variety of standpoints, internally and externally," Kashdan said. "There's no limit as to what we'll be looking for."

The mandate to investigate long standing allegations of theft from national forests involving all levels of the timber industry came from Forcst Service officials in Washington, D.C. The task force also is charged with examining the agency for indications of ineffective oversight of timber sold from its lands.

In recent years concems have surfaced about timber being logged from national forests from California to Alaska with no payment, thus cheating the Forest Service, taxpayers and rural counties that receive a portion of federal timber receipts. The area was responsible for 60Vo of the 9.3 billion board feet of timber sold by the Forest Service in 1990 at a $1.4 billion pricetag. A Forest Service special agent in the Sierra Nevada commented, "There are millions of dollars worth of timber going out the back door."

However, Donn Zea, California Forestry Association, said that al- though thene have been many allegations, there has never been any evidence to suggest that they are true. He also questioned the propriety of the Forest Service heading up an investigation of its own practices.

Kashdan pointed out that the task force will be looking first at the agency's log accountability procedures to see if they can be improved to ensure that the trees cut are the trees paid for. Secondly, he said, they will investigate allegations of traditional and nontraditional lumber theft. Traditional theft is defined as actual theft of hees; non-traditional theft involves altering records and payments.

Abuses occur on private land as well as federal land, according to Robert Sopp, a special agent on the Tahoe National Forest.

Ganahl Groundbreaker

Ganahl Lumber Co. has broken ground on its new replacement storc in Corona, Ca., projecting a summer 1992 opening.

The'1 .32 acre site will feature a rough and finish mill, rail spur and a 74,000 sq. ft. store pattemed after the new Garden Grove, Ca., unit, with skylights, Airlink systems, door and window sales floor, canopied entrances and stand-up lumber racks.

"Collectively, we have won the confidence of Ganahl Lumber Co. to have this store built despite the economy we are in," said Corona manager Mark Gantt, toasting his crew during Oct. 7 groundbreaking festivities. "But when the market is right again, we will have the people and the facility already in place to move fast."

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