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John Myer has been promoted to retail sales mgr. and Keri Thurston to corporate door & millwork sales mgr. at Lumber Products, Tualatin, Or. Trace Cunningham succeeds Thurston as branch mgr. in Salt Lake City, Ut. Welt Lowry is now assistant mgr. in Salt Lake, and Robert Cleland is now branch mgr. in Las Vegas, Nv.

Cameron Caudill was named general mgr. of Lane Stanton Vance Lumber Co., City of Industry, Ca.

Chris Liga has been promoted to mgr. of Farr's True Value Hardware, Coquille, Or.

Richard C. Wininger has been named v.p.-western timberlands for Weyerhaeuser, Federal Way, Wa. Janice Walston and Darlene Mclntyre will shift from plywood to lumber sales when Weyco relocates western plywood mill sales to Hot Springs, Ar., May 2.

Nick Elardo, Western Woods Inc., has relocated his sales office to Hollister, Ca.

Scott Whitmore has been promoted to v.p. of marketing for Jeld-Wen's window group, Klamath Falls, Or.

Ben Tripp is new to the sales staff at Tripp Lumber, Missoula, Mt,

Millard Meeks, ex-Collins Pine Co., is a new account mgr. for Capital Lumber Co., Healdsburg, Ca. In Chino, Ca., Ed Brown, ex-Weyco, is now assistant division mgr. and Shayne Fitzpatrick, ex-Universal, is a new account rep.

Jorge Espinoza has been promoted to regional v.p. of 84 Lumber Co.'s western region. David Cochran is now v.p. of Southwest store operations, overseeing regions including the West.

Ken Osborn, ex-Sierra Pacific, has joined Boston Pacific, Redding, Ca.

Rick Putnam has retired after 2L years with American International Forest Products, Portland, Or.

Ken Bronson, ex-Jasper Wood Products, now specializes in joinery and pattern stock sales at Stora Enso Timber U.S., Portland, Or.

Edward Clessas, Portland, Or., is new to sales for New South Cos.

Jeff Herrmann, ex-Allied Building Products, has joined GeorgiaPacific subsidiary G-P Gypsum as a commercial roofing mgr. for DensDeck roofing products, covering the Pacific Northwest. He is based in Tacoma, Wa., and succeeds Dan Caruth, who is now western commercial roofing mgr., based in Northern California.

Perry Williams, ex-Weldwood of Canada, is now a buyer at Taiga Forest Products, Burnaby, B.C.

Ralph Bruno has been appointed president of Azek Trimboards.

William Barber, ex-Trans-Pacific Trading, has joined International Forest Products, Vancouver, B.C., as sales mgr.

Dave Goulette has been promoted to president of Fypon.

Dave Meyer was promoted to senior v.p.-international & paint at Ace Hardware Corp. Bill Bauman, v.p. of retail support, will direct operations for the entire retail support center system. Dan Prochaska was named v.p.-supply chain. Art McGivern was promoted to senior v.p.-general counsel.

Charles E. Bunch, president and c.e.o.. PPG Industries. Inc., will become chairman when Raymond W. LeBoeuf retires July l.

Eric L. Butler has been named v.p. and general mgr.-industrial products for Union Pacific., overseeing subsidiary Union Pacific Distribution Services. He succeeds Greg Barbe, who has resigned.

Lorne Rogers, ex-Canfor, is the new sales coordinator at Brink Forest Products, Prince George, B.C.

Howard Deck, CertainTeed Corp., has been named chairman of the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association's board of governors and executive committee. Other new committee chairs include John Libonati, Owens Corning, government affairs; Ken Gould, Owens Corning, regllatory affairs & legal; Janis Reynolds, CertainTeed, HSPP; Tom Newton, CertainTeed, communications; Jeff Brisley, Knauf Insulation, fiberglass; Trent Ogilvie, Roxul, Inc., rock & slag wool; Jeff Juzaitis, CertainTeed, metal building; Renee Chesler, CertainTeed, air handling; Eric Nilsson, CertainTeed, building insulation, and George Phelps, commercial & industrial.

David E. Griffith, Modern Group Ltd., was elected to the board of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors' Distribution Research & Education Foundation. Brent Grover, Evergreen Consulting, was named a DREF Fellow, and J. Michael Marks, Indian River Consulting, will serye a second four-year term as a Fellow.

David Weyerhaeuser, Northwest Hardwoods, Federal Way, Wa., was elected to the board of directors and the executive committee of the Hardwood Manufacturers Association.

Jeff Peitzmeier was named Employee of the Month at Meek's Lumber & Hardware, Redding, Ca.

Given Hassel is the new customer service mgr. at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to co-owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

Milgard Plans Millwork Plant

Milgard Windows, Tacoma, Wa., plans to build a new 300,000-sq. ft. manufacturing plant on a 44-acre par cel in Surprise, Az. Expected cost is nearly $36 million.

Some 150 employees are expected to be hired for the 24-hour operation, to produce window and door frame components used for assembly at other Milgard plants. The company's plant in Tempe, Az., will continue to manufacture windows and patio doors for local markets.

Milgard is owned by Masco.

Study Eyes Oregon Logging

Timber harvesting will begin this summer in the Hinkle Creek Paired Watershed Study, a l0-year research project that hopes to determine the relationship between timber production and protection of Oregon's fisheries and aquatic habitat.

The College of Forestry at Oregon State University has been collecting data for four years to provide a background understanding of all aspects of the habitat before timber harvesting begins. The site-last logged around 1950-is owned by Roseburg Forest Products.

"Forest management and timber harvesting in today's second-growth forest stands are quite different than in the past," said Arne Skaugset, the project's lead scientist and associate professor of forest engineering at OSU. "However, many assumptions regarding their environmental impacts are still based on studies that were carried out in the 1960s."

"For decades there have been improvements in forest practices, scientific advances, new road construction techniques, a move toward logging of young or small diameter trees, and the use of harvesting equipment that has a much smaller environmental footprint," said Skaugset.

With many fish becoming threatened or endangered, there is a strong need to protect fisheries and aquatic habitat in Oregon. However, the forest sector is also critical, generating 85,000 jobs and more than $12 billion annually to the state economY. The study hopes to answer questions regarding the protection of headwater streams during timber harvest. These very small streams don't suPPort a fishery, but can influence water quality downstream.

The stakes are very high, said Hal Salwasser, dean of OSU's College of Forestry. "It's imperative to protect water quality and fisheries, but we must have a body of field science to know what is really needed,"

Salwasser said. "Continued pressure to move forest rules beyond the state-ofthe-science has the potential to cause needless loss of private property value and productive land base."

"Current Oregon forest practices regulations don't require buffers on headwater streams during timber harvesting," said OSU's Steve Tesch. "However, when the Oregon Plan for Salmon & Watersheds was formulated, it identified a need for better knowledge about the functioning of this part of the watershed ecosystem."

The Oregon Board of ForestrY is considering an update to riparian protection rules, including the need for protection of headwater streams during harvesting. While results from the Hinkle Creek study will not be available in time to inform the current discussion, the goal of studies like this is to anticipate emerging policy questions and work to strengthen the scientific foundation for Oregon forest practice regulations.

If researchers can obtain funding, they plan to expand research to at least two other sites with different geology, climate, and terrain characteristics.