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Nu Forest Products is a full-line distribution yard that, unlike many, has a wide range of milling equipment that enables us to handle all your specialized needs. NFP can mill lengths from 8" to 38'-your stock or ours.

Rus, let Nu Forest Products prime your stock tfuouglr our Paint-o-Matic and drying oven. Protected with up to two coats of top-quality primer to minimized moisture problems, NFP Prirned Products perform better.

Our inventory includes Redwood (KD & Green), Dou$as ftr (KD Clears & Dimension, Timbers), Pine KD (Commons & Clears), Western Red Cedar (Select Knotty, Clears, Timbers), Hem-Fir (Fascia), Fingerjoturt (DF, Redwood, WRC), Pressure Treated DF, and RMT Engneered Timbers.

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Fox Lumber, Green Valley Lake, Ca., was destroyed by the wildfires that raged through Southern California in midOctober

Central Home Supply, Santa Cruz, Ca., is seeking approval to relocate to 4 acres owned by Scarborough Lumber in nearby Scotts Valley

H elliesen Lumber, Yakima, Wa., has purchased a 3.7S-acre parcel for $1.8 million, but declined further comment

84 Lumber Co. held grand openings Nov. 27 for a 9.6-acre yard in Redmond, Or. (Thomas Gilbert, mgr.), and a store with compansion component plant on 9.5 acres in W. Jordan, Ut. (Randy Harris, general mgr.) ...

Hubbard's Ace Hardware, Medford, Or., predicts a Febrary completion for its year-long, $2.5-million renovation and expansion ...

Elmwood Hardware, Berkeley, Ca., closed Oct. l, as owner Tad Laird contemplates whether to invest in extensive remodeling or remain closed ...

Ace Hardware opened last month at the new Boronda Square Center in N. Salinas, Ca.

Capitol Lumber, Lacey, Wa., lost $100,000 in equipment in mid-October; sheriff 's deputies are investigating the possible burglary of a 1998 Macktractor, utility trailer, and attached Moffett forklift...

Lowe's Cos. will open a new store in N. San Bernardino. Ca.. Nov. 13 and unveiled new stores Oct. 30 in N. Visalia, Ca., and S. Lacey, Wa., and Oct.23 in Renton, Wa., and Fernley, Nv. (Steve Schoenberger, store mgr.) ...

Lowe's won approval to build on 15 acres in Highland, Ca.; is proceeding with plans for a location in Hanford, Ca., after the city council denied an appeal by environmentalists; is awaiting a ruling from the Tuolumne County Superior Court regarding plans for a 112,000-sq. ft. store on 11 acres in Sonora, Ca., and will build a 170,000-sq. ft. store in Richmond, Ca., if a county-owned health center can relocate ...

Home Depot opened new stores act.25 in E. San Jose and Yucca Valley, Ca.; Oct. 18 in Compton, Ca.; Oct. 11 in Spanaway (Tacoma), Wa.; Oct. 4 in Richfield, Ut., and a new format Design Center Oct. 18 in Concord, Ca. (see story, p. 34) ...

Home Depot expects to open early this month in a new shopping center in Chino, Ca.; has acquired a site in Silverthorne, Co.; received the go-ahead to begin construction in Pahrump, Nv., and expects an early 2O09 opening for a 130,000-sq. ft. store on 11 acres in Roy, Ut. ...

Home Depot failed to receive approval from the California Coastal Commission to build near Belmont Shore (Long Beach), Ca., because of traffic, environmental, and safety problems; decided against building on a 19-acre site in Novato, Ca., and closed its San Pedro, Ca., store twice in September due to bomb threats that proved to be hoaxes

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American Lumber Salas, San Bernardino. Ca.. has closed and on Oct. 30 auctioned off its moulding and millworking machinery ...

White Sands Forest MFP (Mescalero Forest Products) closed its Alamogordo, N.M., sawmill last month, putting more than 70 employees out of work; the company acquired the 100year-old facility in 2001 ...

Sierra-Pacific Industries, Redding, Ca., has acquired 140,000 acres of timberland in SW Washington from The Campbell Group, Portland, Or. ...

Manke Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wa., eliminated its second, effective October29 ...

Lumbermens Credit Association, I31-year-old publisher of The Lumbermens Redbook, has closed its Chicago, Il., offices ...

BW Creative Wood, Maple Ridge, B.C., is rebranding its Creative Railing Systems products as Rail Simple and changed its website to www.railsimple.com

Setzer Forest Products, Sacramento, Ca., now produces MDF products that all qualify for LEED credits...

Cooley Forest Products, Phoenix, Az., is a new distributor for borate-treated ES+Wood ...

Anniversari es: Canyon Lumbe r Co., Everett, Wa., 100th Emerson Hardwood, Portland, Or., l00th ... Georgia-Pacific Corp., Atlanta. Ga.. 80th ... DeCou Lumber Co., Atascadero, Ca., 70th Saroyan Lumber Co., Huntington Park. Ca.. 60th ... Bear Creek Lumber, Winthrop, Wa., 30th ... Orepac Building Products, Wilsonville, Or., 30th ... Kuna Lumber, Kuna, Id.,5th ...

Housing starts in Sept. declined l0.2Vo to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.19 million units, the lowest in over 14 vears single-family starts slid I.7Vo to a 963,000-unit annual pace, while multi-family dropped 34.37o to a 228,000-unit rate ... regionally, (Please turn to page 44)