LISA is getting quite a Reputation

'... LISA allows usto track inventory easily. With LiSAwe are able to see our entire inventory @t alllocations), allowing us to instantly quote prices and delivery times on just one phone call, usually resulting in more orders and a taster inventory turn.'

Steve Power Power Wood Corp. Coquitlam, BC

"... As withany sottware change, I was apprehensive, but now, one year later, I can't imagine doing my job without LISA.'

Angie Daughefi

J.M. McCormick Co. lnc. lndianapolis, lN

+"l would like to say that over the pastseveral years it has been extremely difticult to find a software package that was geared toward wholesale lumber distribution. LISA 96 has ended our search.'

Ray Unick

Manufacturers Reserve Supply lrvin$on, NJ

Robert Brewer has been named a buyer for North American Forest Products, Mount Vernon, Wa.

Susan S. Fitzsimmons has been elected v.p. of marketing for Snavely Forest Products.

Douglas Honholt was promoted to v.p.-industrial market segment of Universal Forest Products. Dick Gauthier is now director of mktg. for prociuct development and merchandising, and Mark Deremo, director of mktg. for corporate and field communications.

Rob Horstmann, Huttig Building Products, Auburn, Wa., has been in Florida on Tyvek business.

Tom Tamlyn, R.H. Tamlyn & Sons, has received seven U.S. patents on vinyl accessories for fiber cement soffits, including Snapvenr, EZvent, Starter Strips, Inside Corder, T Mold and Adjustable Reveal.

George T. Matthew has been promoted to v.p. of stores and distribution for Dunn-Edwards Corp., Los Angeles, Ca. Dennis R. Kromer, chief financial officer and treasurer. will also serve as v.p. of finance, and John J. Boren is now general sales mgr.

Gary Weiss, owner, Do it Best GW Hardware, Woodburn, Or., has been named vice chairman of Do it Best Corp. Bruce Ellis, owner, Roswell Lumber Do it Center, Roswell, N.M., is board secretary.

Dwayne Cody, CertainTeed and Ashland Davis, Vancouver, Wa., was in Phoenix recently on company business.

Joe Morgan III, The Diamond Group, was been elected president of the American Wood-Preservers' Association. P. Byron Hawkins, Webster Industries, is now lst v.p.; D. Mike Dilbeck, Timber Products Inspection, Inc.,2nd v.p., and Fred Omundson, Chemical Specialties, Inc., treasurer. Edward Williams Jr., A.W. Williams Inspections, was named to the executive committee.

Steve Bruner, Tali-Pak Lumber, Hopland, Ca.;U.B. Ruez, Mendocino Forest Products, Santa Rosa, Ca., and Tom Gilley, Tom Gilley Wood Products, have returned fiom a week in Mexico at the Baja 1000. Bruner hopes to run next year in the Baja 2000.

Marc Brinkmeyer, Riley Creek Lumber Co., Laclede. Id.: Ron Wilson, Ochoco Lumber Co.,

Prineville, Or., and Mark Rees. Boise Cascade Corp, Boise, Id., were part of the American delegation attending the 4lst annual meeting of the European Softwood Conference in Valencia, Spain. Karl W. Lindberg, Southern

Forest Products Association, was chairman of the delegation.

Bea Sweet has been named customer service mgr. at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products. Climax. Nv.. report co-owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

"SprawlBuster" Pens Book

"Good things happen when Home Depot comes to town-but mostly for Home Depot."

This sentence, culled from selfstyled sprawl buster Al Norman's new book Slam-Dunking Wal-Mart!, slccinctly sums up the author's feelings about the home improvement retailer and other big box giants, such as Lowe's and Wal-Mart.

Since 1993, when he orchestrated a city-wide vote to reject the construction of a Wal-Mart in his hometown of Greenfield. Ma.. Norman has been a proponent for saving other cities from sprawls. Recently, he was a featured speaker at the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association' s annual convention.

In addition to showing readers how they can keep sprawls at bay, the book contains reams of analysis and figures supporting Norman's claim that big boxes are akin to cancer.

The majority of the book pertains to Wal-Mart, with only perhaps 257o of its 245 pages devoted to Home Depot, Lowe's, etc.

HomeBase Adds

Plan

HomeBase, Irvine, Ca., plans to phase out sales of "endangered species of wood" over the next three years.

It will begin working with its vendors "to further increase the supply of independently certified wood and other alternatives to old growth products."

HomeBase was considered among the most likely targets of anticipated protests by the Rainforest Action Network, which had demonstrated at Home Depot locations and functions until the company announced a similar policy two months ago.

ON THE HILL: (Above) Over 50 American Wood Preservers Institute pe_mbers gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol,ready to bring the industry's message lo Congress. Duringthe Obt. 4-6 regltatory and'tegistative a-ffairs conference, they visited over 60 Congressmen, witlL(top right, l-r) AWPI pres. Scott Ramminqer, vicechair John McGinley, chair Wiijiam Batdwin, Gus Staats, WilliamCrossman and George Varn, Jr. greeting Senator Paul Coverdell (B-Ga.), subcommittee chair on the Senate Agriculture & Forestry Committee. (Botiom right, t-r) Van Roland, RandyDeWeese, Ramminger and Baldwin confer withSenateMajoiity Leader Trenl Lott (R-Ms.).

Western Association News

( Continued from page 22)

McCartney, Valley Bestway Building Supply, Spokane, Wa.; Jim Crawford, Tum-A-Lum Lumber, Walla Walla, Wa.; Greg Newenhof, City Lumber, Astoria, Or.; Wayne Graber, Van Well Building Supply, Dallas, Or.; Dennis Orem, Jerry's Home Improvement Center, Eugene, Or.; Mike Hennick, Hennick's Home Center, Bandon, Or.; Eric Gerretsen, Gerretsen Building Supply, Roseburg, Or.; Charley Miller, Miller Lumber, Bend, Or.: Chris Perrin, Capital Lumber, Boise, Id.; Joyce Rogers, Woody's Big Sky Supply, Ronan, Mt.; Kirk Jolley, Jolley Building Supply, Shelley, Id.; Robert Hodgins, Ashland Lumber, Ashland, Or.; Paul Thomae. Thomae Lumber Sales, Laurel, Mt.: Joe Lovato, Hadlock Building Supply, port Hadlock, Wa.; Charles M. Simpson, Big Sandy Lumber, Big Sandy, Mt.; Milo Stordahl, Triple S Building Center, Butte, Mt.; Steve Morse, Milwaukie Lumber, Milwaukie, Or.; Tom Simkins, SimkinsHallin Lumber, Bozeman, Mt.; David Dittmer, Lumbermen's, Olympia, Wa., and Dick Blackwood, BMC West, Boise, Id.

Photo coverage of the event appears on p.78-79.

Next year, WBMA will hold its annual convention Nov. 2-5 at the DoubleTree Hotel/Lloyd Center, Portland, and its 3lst annual Young Westerners Conference Jan. 20-23 attheEugene Hilton, Eugene, Or.

Nevada Treater Sold

Pacific Wood Preserving of Bakersfield has acquired Nevada Wood Preserving and is operating the Silver Springs, Nv., treater as a wholly-owned subsidiary.

A new high density incisor, Pac Bor treatment, enlarged treated lumber inventory and increased lumber treating are improvements being made by the Bakersfield, Ca., parent company at the Nevada facility. The NWP manager is Sharon Wilson.

PWP has other subsidiaries in Arizona and Texas and is constructing a new treating plant in Northern California near Corning.

NorPac Acquires Burns

The North Pacific Group, Ponland, Or., has reached an agreement in principle to acquire the assets of Burns Lumber Co., Medford, Or.

Burns will keep its name and operate as a division of North Pacific. An aggressive expansion plan includes selling nationally and enlarging its product line to include I-joists, panels and related products. The 73-year-old wholesale company has traditionally almost exclusively sold framing lumber in the California market.

William R. Perkins continues as president. John Stembridge, formerly vice president of sales and marketing at TreeSource Industries, has joined Burns as executive vice president and manager,

China Building To Catch U.S.

The United States ranks 33rd out of 58 global markets in construction opportunities, and will be surpassed by China as the world's largest market by 2010, according to an F.W Dodge and Standard & Poor's DRl joint study.

Building New Markets: Global Construction Market Opportunities

and Risks asserts future growth favors less mature markets, such as, in topranking order, South Korea, Ireland, Sweden, Greece and Spain. Conversely, traditional large markets will see construction opportunities decline.

With $726 billion in construction spending for 1999, the United States is the world's largest market, followed by Japan, China, Germany and France. By 2010, however, projected global leader China's construction spending will approach $1.2 trillion, followed by the U.S. and Japan.

Plum Creek's Land Exchange

Plum Creek Timber Co., Seattle, Wa., has agreed to trade 31,900 acres of central Washington Cascade oldgrowth forestlands for 11,500 acres of U.S. Forest Service land located farther south in the state.

The agreement with eight environmental groups also called for Plum Creek to sell an additional 18,000 acres to the government for $30 million.

Both sides will profit from the deal, nicknamed the "I-90 land exchange" because about 30,000 acres are located along scenic Interstate 90.