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International Wood Products Association - Dec. 10, regional luncheon & business meeting, Hyatt Regency, Long Beach, Ca.; (703) 820-6696.

Washington Hardwoods Commission - Dec. 11, meeting, Olympia, Wa.; (350) 835-1600.

Portland Wholesale Lumber Association - Dec. 13, Christmas lunch, Doubletree Hotel, Portland, Or.; (503) 648-4156.

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Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Assn.Jan. 6-9, estimating courses, Casper, Wy.; Jan. 13-16, Denver, Co.; Jan. 28-30, Albuquerque, N.M.; (303) 793-0859.

Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club - Jan. 9, luncheon, Steven's Steakhouse, Commerce, Ca.: (323) 723-9856.

International Housewares Show - Jan. 12-14, McCormick Place, Chicago, Il.; (847) 292-4200.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 15, Valley, Ca.; ('707) 462-3700.

Humboldt Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 16, Eureka, Ca.; (7 07 ) 268-3085.

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California Forestry Assn. - Jan. 16-17, annual meeting,Haze Mansion Conference Center, San Jose, Ca.; (916) 444-6592

Do it Best Corp. - Jan. 16-17, winter market, Phoenix, Az.; (2t9) 748-s300.

National Association of Home Builders - Jan. 2l-24, annual expo, Las Vegas, Nv.; (800) 368-5242.

WESTERN Building Materials Association recently held its annual convention and show in Portland, 0r. (1) Rick McOartney, Casey Voorhees. 12) Albert Mickadeit, Ed Burlingame. (3) Ray Duncan, Danny Harper. (4)

]9m Stgmpf, Jeff Peterson. (5) Claudia & Tom Westbrobk. (6) Kyte Main, Michelle Cunningham, Bob Mathias. (7) Wally Gomez, fyte Peterson, Ron Park. (8)boug Mackay, Derrick'Lirder, Scott lrmstrong.

(9)Stu Stewart, Jody Woile,ierry Hdgen. (10)Monis &Sandy Jamei.

(11) Mark Dietrich, Tony Tomasini. (12) Karen & Jack Olson, lrv

Dellinger. (13)Tara Moore, Mark Dawkins, Bill Collins. (14) Tina Krulich, Buck Wheat. (15) Alex Goff, Jim Turner. (16) John Harl, Jeff Anderson. (17) Michele Pritchard, Jim Morse, Cameron Adams. (18) Jeff Painter, Jay Agosta, Steve Zareski, Cody Grove. (19) Don Danka, Jerry Farley, Ken Laughlin. (20) Charlie Schadewald, Jim Canoll. (21) Rob Mueller, Bob Kiteley, Ron Schierman, Mark Hoenisch. (22) Martin Hotes, B.J. Tournay, Jason Allen, Paul Walters, Tom Beulke, Phillip Floyd. (For more details on the show, see Western Association News, page 22)

Lumber Association of California & Nevada welcomed David Jones, Foster Lumber Yards, Vallejo, Ca., as president during its recent convention in Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Nv. He succeeds Matt Petersen, Mead Clark Lumber, Santa Rosa, Ca., who is now national legislative rep (For photos, see p. 32-33).

Margo Conner, Pacific Home Do it Center, San Luis Obispo, Ca., is lst v.p.; Greg Moss, Moss Lumber, Redding, Ca., 2nd v.p.; Ken Womack, Weyerhaeuser, West Sacramento, Ca., associates v.p., and Milton Johnson, Home Lumber, San Bernardino, Ca., treasurer.

Eric Ziedrich, Healdsburg Lumber, Healdsburg, Ca., continues to chair the insurance trust. New to the trust is Julie Wimberly, Moss Lumber.

Western Building Material Association installed Bruce Abel, Don Abel Building Supplies, Juneau, Ak., as president during its recent convention in Portland, Or. (For photos, see p. 21.)

Also elected:v.p. Jeff Swan, Evergreen Lumber, Port Orchard, Wa., and Mike Hennick, Hennick's Home Center, Bandon, Or.; executive committee member Tom Simkins, SimkinsHallin Lumber Co., Bozeman, Mt.; insurance trustee Bob Perrin, Capital Lumber Co., Boise, Id., and directors Ed Waite, Spenard Builders Supply, Anchorage, Ak.; Dennis Orem, Jerry's Home Improvement Center, Eugene, Or.; Robert Hodgins, Ashland Lumber Co., Ashland, Or.; Tom Sliter, Sliter's Ace Lumber & Hardware, Somers, Mt.; Paul Thomae, Thomae Lumber Sales, Laurel, Mt., and Tom Dunn, Dunn Lumber Co., Seattle, Wa.

Randy Stemper, Astoria Builders Supply, Astoria, Or., received the Distinguished Dealer Award, and Len Bolton, Weatherly's, Inc., Eugene, Or., was named Supplier of the Year.

Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association plans Bill Darling estimating semi- nars for Jan. 6-9 in Casper, Wy.; Jan. 13-16 in Denver. Co.. and Jan. 28-30 in Albuquerque, N.M.

MSLBMDA recently recognized Michael D. Martin, AD Martin Lumber Co., Riverton, Wy., as its 2002-2004 Industry All-Star during its fall conference in Vail. Co.

Roy Edward "Ed" Sandlin was posthumously honored with the Honorary Life Member Award.

New Depot Departments

Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga., has introduced two new store departments that carry home safety and health products.

Depot held free safety awareness events at its U.S. stores Oct. 12 to promote the Home Safety Zone and Healthy Home Zone departments.

Home Safety Zone features products like fire extinguishers, security lighting and smoke alarms. The area is aimed at indoor environment issues, stocking products such as air purifiers, dehumidifiers and thermostats.

"We will be providing guidance on how to protect and prepare families and homes from hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters," said Richard Dale, global product merchant for home safety and security."

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As part of its ongoing divestiture of non-core assets, Louisiana-Pacific Corp. has sold its Rocklin, Ca., distribution center to one of its largest distributors, Taiga Forest Products, Ltd.

The acquisition marks the first major investment in the U.S. for Taiga, the largest wholesale building products distributor in Canada.

The l5-acre DC featuring 100,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space will continue to stock L-P products.

"We have had a very good business relationship with Taiga for many years," said L-P chairman and c.e.o. Mark A. Suwyn. "Taiga is a very important customer for many of L-P's products, and their purchase of the Rocklin distribution center only strengthens this relationship."

Buyer For Montana L-P Plant

Roseburg Forest Products, Roseburg, Or., has signed a letter of intent to acquire Louisiana-Pacific Corp.'s Missoula, Mt., plant.

The plant, which L-P put up for sale in May as part of its divesture program, employs 200 people and produces specialty and commodity particleboard products.

"The sale will put this mill into the hands of a company focused on the particleboard business," said L-P's Mark A. Suwyn, "allowing us to fully focus our attention and resources on our ongoing business."

Roseburg's Allyn Ford said particleboard has been a focus of his company for decades.

"We want to grow our particleboard business both internally and through acquisition, and L-P's Missoula facility is perfect for us," said Ford.

Depot Workers Donate Time Home Depot workers representing I I California stores in the Inland Empire recently spent a day as d-iyers at a local youth club.

The one hundred Depot volunteers gave their time at the Boys & Girls Club in Pomona Valley. Employees tackled a number of tasks including flooring and carpet installation, painting and landscaping.

"l see a bunch of angels running around in orange shirts," said the club's Mike Shaub.

The retailer also contributed $23,000 in materials. Depot district mgr. Charles Bayer said it was one of the biggest volunteer projects in his I 1 years with the company. Marwa Cabell, human resources mgr. at the Upland store, coordinated the project.

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DIXIELINE Lumber (1) remodeled, expanded and remerchandised its La Mesa store. (2) Biggest addition was a 3,000-so. ft. door and window showroom. (3) At Dixieline's National City DC, a new corbel saw can cut four stacked. 4" oieces of lumber al one time and uD lo 800 corbels per eight-hour shift. lt is positioned on a column and leatures a 360' rotation allowing continual use when cutting detailed patterns with seat cuts. (4) Tiger Stop whirlwind cut-off saw dramatically reduces waste while increasing productivity. The saw cuts six pieces of 2x4 lumber at one time. The automated push feed allows a single operator to load the saw and stack the cut pieces himself. In the past, this operation required two people.

(5) P.E.T. unit cutter cuts units of lumber within 1/32" oJ tolerance and can cut a unit of lumber in approximately 10 minutes. The saw eliminates single piece lumber handling when cutting large volume orders.

Modernizations For Dixieline Lumber

Dixieline Lumber Co.. San Diego. Ca., recently overhauled its largest retail store, as well as its nearby lumber distribution center.

Dixieline remodeled and added 6.000 sq. lt. of selling space to its now 25,000-sq. ft. La Mesa, Ca., retail store, making it the largest in the chain. All departments were expanded and received energy efficient fluorescent lighting and bright interior paint. Wider aisles with new Lozier gondola fixtures were installed. The low profile fixtures improve visibility throughout the store. Rebuilt retail sales counters now feature express registers. The most significant addition was a new east county Door & Window Showroom f'eaturing a 3,000 sq. ft. sales and display area.

Following a grand reopening celebration Oct. l0-14, branch mgr. Victor Hughes remarked, "The opening was phenomenal and sales were beyond expectations."

This year. Dixieline also upgraded equipment at its lumber distribution center in National City, Ca., increasing its milling, load building and packaging capabilities.

Among the additions: an SV3 Maxi corbel saw, to cut corbels more efficiently than the standard rolling band saw; a self-feeding Tiger Stop whirlwind cut-ofT saw: a Pacific Trail P.E.T. unit cutter and flush bump package aligned, which eliminates single piece lumber handling when cutting large volume orders, and a quickfeed SCMI Superset23 moulder for pattern stock material.

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Forest Experts Tackle Fires

Government and university forestry researchers recently met in Lake Tahoe, Nv., to discuss the practice of prescribed burns and logging as antidotes to wildfires.

Speaking to over 300 scientists at the Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, researchers found that removing fuel loads from forests helped reduce wildfire risks, but still lacked evidence that thinning through logging or prescribed burns were more helpful.

Some of the researchers findings included:

. leaving behind big trees helps to prevent future wildfires, fire is as a natural cycle of ecosystems and not necessarily an enemy, foresters should view wildfires in the context of hundreds of years and not make immediate forest management decisions based on unusual wildfire seasons, and

. more funding for research into fire's effect on forest ecosystems is needed.

"Fire has been a significant part of the Sierra Nevada for a millennia," said Jan van Wagtendonk of the U.S. Geological Survey. "We can choose to ignore it at our peril or we can choose to work with it."

Ecologists atthe U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station, LaGrande, Or., have just begun a $l million, five-year study that compares the effects of prescribed burns versus mechanical thinning or a combination of both at l3 sites across the country.

"At this point, information needed to answer this question is anecdotal or completely absent," said ecologist Jim Mclver, who will lead the study.

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