> Norm Dick stated:
>> We also, by the way, the home builders of our country support this,
>> because the cost of lumber in an ordinary $135,000 has gone up by
>> $5,000 a house, because of the shortage of lumber.
>>
>> This will give additional lumber supply and hopefully will reduce
>> those prices. So it has a positive effect on housing as well.
>>
>I find this a very interesting comment considering the fact that in
October,
>three major timber companies (Weyerhaeuser, Louisiana Pacific, and
Willamette
>Industries) reported "huge gains in profits" over the same quarter from
last
>year. This is according to the Portland AP. The timber companies appear to
have
>no interest in lowering timber prices.
>
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>Roger Peffer- rpeffer at ctc.ctc.edu / 509-662-1651 X2017
>Wenatchee Valley College /
>Biology/Chemistry Depts. / I have met the enemy,
>1300 Fifth Street / and they is us.
>Wenatchee, WA 98801 / Pogo
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There is a concern among the small gypsy loggers that the the whole Spotted
Owl issue was invented by the big timber companies to drive them, the small
guys dependent on NF lands, out of business.

There's one for your conspiracy file.

--Jerry Tangren