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FEAruRNE intentioned ESA has become a black hole for taxpalcr dollars."
Recovery costs for the four most expensive plans, says the association: Atlantic green turtle, $88,236,000; loggerhead turrle, $85,947,000; bluntnosed leopard lizard, $70,252,000, and Kemp's Ridley sea turtle, $63.600,000.
Bald eagle and peregrine falcons are not included in the top 25 because their recoveries, despite being the biggest species recovery success stories, did not come from the mandates of the ESA but from the banning of DDT, SLMA concludes.
European Towns Ban PVG
Wood is rapidly becoming the only acceptable material for window frames in public buildings in Europe.
Gernnny and Austria permit polyvinylchloride window frames only in skyscrapers where wood's five-year painting cycle makes it too expensive to maintain. OOer restrictions on PVC applications in public buildings are being legislated at the rate of one Ernopean town a month, according to Timber Trades Journal.
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NHLA 97th Annual ln Florida
Lou Guzzo, co-author of Trashing thc Planet and Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense?, will keynote the National Hardwood Lumber Association's 97th annual convention Oct. 16-19 at Buena Visa Pahce, Orlando, Fl. Committee meetings, seminars and an exhibit showcase are planned. Seminan will cover implementation of the new NHLA grading rules and grading certification progran, log storage, sticker stain, capital improvement loans, value-added manufacnring and marketing strategy. Exhibits will include the latest technology in dry kilns, information systems, chemicals, material handling and collection systems.
The Weekly Hardwood Review and U.C Coatings will join NHLA to sponsor the Hardwood Forest Foundation Golf Benefit. Special activities for spouses and children, a "Hollywood Street Party," a new members reception, breakfast, lunch and dinner meetings and a gala reception afe planned.
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HomeBase Cuts, Moves Stores In Restructuring
HomeBase is in the midst of a restructuring that includes closing or relocating Z stores that they found too small, too old or too far away from headquarters in kvine, Ca.
California remains the stronghold of the chain with 31 of its remaining 81 sores.
Waban Inc., Natich Ma", reported a $101 million pretax charge in connection with the restructuring of its HomeBase subsidiary. Ranked sixth among the nation's home centers for the last two years, the warehouse chain recorded revenues of $1,700,000 from 90 units in 1993 with a 75?o d-i-yl257o professional customer mix. Allan Sherman, formerly an executive with Waban, became president in Sept. 1993.
Executives at the parent company are optimistic as operating income at the 67 stores scheduled to remain open after the restructuring rose to $11.8 million for the quarter ending April 30, up from $8.4 million that period last year.
In addition to closing under-perforrring units, management is stressing customer service by increasing the number of employees at the stores including licensed contractors, plumbers and interior designers on site. In addition, they re concentrat- ing on adding merchandise required by the pros, such as top-of-the-line power tools and lumber. SKUs have jum@ ftom 10,000 to 25,000.
Lumber Dealers Schedule 78th Annual Convention In Hawaii
National Lumber & Building Material Dealen Association's 78th annual convention is scheduled for Sepr 22-Axthe HyattRegency, Maui Hi.
Meetings of government affairs, executive and dealer services steering committees, Manufacturers and Services Industry Council and the board of directors are scheduled for the first day. A welcoming reception honoring incoming president Harold Smick will be held in the evening.
Day trro breakfast speaker will be T. Scofi Gross, author of "Positively Outrageous Service and Showmanship.' After his talk, Gross will conduct workshops following the theme "Winning in the Year 2000: Attracting, Training and Retaining a Winning Team."
Dr. Cheryl Bann will begin the last day with a discussion of "Retailing 2000 - Managing for Excellence:
Every Lumber Dealer Needs to Know in
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Order to Prosper in the Years Ahead." Representatives of Ausralia and New Znaland will provide "A Look at the Wood Products Industries in Australia and New Trlaland" in the first of two morning workshops. Cigna financial advisors will offer succession planning for family and independently owned businesses in the second.
Jim Petersen, Evergreen Foundation, will address "The Future of America's Forests: What to Tell Your Customers and Your Communities" at the Past Presidents'lunch. The president's luau and second annual NLBMDA charity auction are scheduled that evening.
A post convention study tour to Australia and New Zealmd departs Sept.25.
A NATIONAL EVALUATION REPORT (NER-457) has been issued by the National Evaluation Service of the Council of American Building Officials to confirm that PYRO-GUARD Fire RetardantTreated Lumber and Plywood meets requirements of the BOCA, UBC, and SBCCI model building codes.
PVRO-GUARD is the FfRSf Fire RetardantTreated Wood with:
Third Party Kiln Monitoring in addition to U.L. Follow-up seruice
FRT labor and materials replacement cost warranty Code Compliance Report with evaluation of elevated temperature strength testing for roof applications
Arizona House Tests Environmental Products
Arizona State University and under the customer's control than Scientific Certification Systems their home. So from an envirorunen(SCS) are evaluating environmen0al tal standpoint, it is the place to make afiributes of materials used to build a the ultimate home improvement." showcase home in Phoenix. Az.
Building product producers are
The house is intended to exemplify meeting the environmenal challenge, ways to maximize energy efficiency, notes Dr. Chet Chaffee, SCS marketreduce water use, increase recycled ing vice president, Oakland, Ca. content in materials and minimize "Some of the most dynamic developburdens on the environmenl ments in environmentallv motivated
"The home center is the fundarnen- product design are taking place in the tal environmental store, where the home improvement and construction customer is empowered to think glob- industry sectors," he said. ally and act locally," explains Mark
His company has certified enviEisen, environmenal marketing man- ronnental claims for dozens of home ager for Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga. improvement products ranging from "There is no place more local or dimensional lumber and house paints
lncome, Age, Marital Status Determine Spending
Just over six in 10 homeowners spent money on home maintenance in 1991 with the dollar amount linked to income level, age and marital status.
A Csnsus Bureau survey showed median annual spending of $315 (an average of $26 a month). High income households ($100,000 or more) made up 8Vo of owners paying for maintenance and 177o of those
The Treated Answer
Lumber, plywood, round stock stokes, poles, & pilings Agency stomped, ground contoct fire retordont pressure-treoted wood products who spent $1,000 or morc annually. Owners with incomes under $20,000 represented 20Vo of those paying for maintenance, but only l37o of those spending $1,000 or mor€.
The elderly (26Vo of all homeowners) constituted more than a third of those who had spent nothing for maintenance. Over half of fte persons living alone regardless of age also had to shower heads and insulation. They also are conducting "cradle to grave" studies for an increasing number of products to help consumers understand the larger environmental profile of these items. Studies, including one with the Westem Wood Products Association, are underway in the woo{ steel, plastics and Eeated lumber industries. spent nothing on maintenance.
Collins Almanor Forest, Collins Pine Co. and Plan Piloto Forstal have been certified as producing wood products from well managed forests. Shower heads, insulation, paint, prepaint cleliilrers, spray painl floor tiles, rubber mats and interlocking tiles also have been certified.
Sixty-two percent of apartment or condominium owners in buildings of 10 or more units and 48Vo of mobile home owners also had no maintenance costs. However maintenance costs for the fonner were assumed to have been covered by monthly association fees.
An American Housing Survey found nearly one in four owners liv- in the same home between 1985 and 1991 had consistently paid for maintenance work. Only about 87o reported no maintenance spending. Consistent spenders had higher median household incomes ($46,102) and a median age of 51 years.
Northeast owners spent an annual median of $400 on maintenance; westerners, $360; southerners, $287, and midwesterners, $235. Nearly 667o paid for maintenance in the Northeast compared to 64% in the West and Midwest and 56Vo in the Souttr.
Wyoming Retail Sales Higher
Wyoming lumber and building material retailers' sales totaled $100.246 million in 1992, a l2.6Vo increase from 1987, the Bureau of the Census reports.
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