No. 528 March 2013 WHA Board of Directors

No. 528
March 2013
WHA Board of Directors
Mike Lipke
President
Lee Jimerson
Vice President
Kurt Landwehr
Treasurer
Darrin Hastings
Immediate Past President
Adam Brennan
Gevin Brown
Nils Dickmann
Jeff Marthaller
Lindy Stallard
David Sweitzer
Secretary/Manager
P.O. Box 1095
Camas, WA 98607
Ph: (360) 835-1600
Fax: (360) 835-1900
Web:
www.westernhardwood.org
Email:
[email protected]
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Welcome New Member
Legislative Update
Outlook
Get Motivated
Upcoming Events
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Join WHA
First time membership is $150 the first year and
for a limited time, $150 for the second year also.
The WHA is the only organization dedicated
exclusively to the availability and promotion of
Western Hardwoods. Membership benefits
include:
online membership directory listing
one free newsletter ad
company profile in newsletter
our monthly email newsletter
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a free banner ad on WHA’s website
cost effective newsletter advertising
networking at the Annual Meeting
discounts on Association meeting registration
 politically active through the Hardwood
Federation
Joining is quick and easy. Use the
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simply pay by credit card,
www.westernhardwood.org.
W
elcome New Members
ALLEGANY FOREST PRODUCTS
Timberland owner.
PO Box 183
Allegany, OR 97407
Contact: Tracy Scott
Ph:
(541) 267-3919
Web:
www.alleganyforestproducts.com
Email:
[email protected]
BREWCO, INC.
Sawmill equipment..
607 Front Street
Central City, KY 42330
Contact: Michael Goldston
Ph:
(270) 754-5746
Fax:
(270) 754-9249
Web:
www.brewcoinc.com
Email:
[email protected]
GOBY WALNUT PRODUCTS, INC.
Sawmill, distributor.
5315 NW St Helens Road
Portland, OR 97201
Contact: Art Blumenkron
Ph:
(503) 477-6744
Fax:
(503) 477-6747
Web:
www.gobywalnut.com
Email:
[email protected]
RAPTOR INTEGRATION, INC.
Sawmill equipment manufacturer..
PO Box 1128
Salmon Arm, BC V1E 4P3
Contact: Tim Mosher
Ph:
(888) 734-2659 x 101
Web:
www.raptorinc.ca
Email:
[email protected]
Q uote for the month
“Though some people live 99 years, most people live
one year 99 times. Today is your day to escape the
confines of your comfort zone and truly come alive so that
2013 will be a year to remember.” - Larry Dennis
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L
egislative Update
Congress and the President have failed to negotiate
in good faith and set priorities for the Federal
government. The result is that the burden of budget cuts
are falling on discretionary spending; i.e. - the spending
that keeps the National Forests in business. Even within
those dollars, Congress is not prioritizing management
and they are allowing the timber sale program to decline.
Hardwood Federation
Update - The Supreme
Court ruled last week (by a
vote of 7-1) to overturn a
9th Circuit Courts of
Appeals ruling that roads
associated with silvicultural operations are point sources
under the Clean Water Act. The ruling is a considerable
win for forest landowners and hardwood facilities that
rely on ready access to affordable timber. If the 9th
Circuit Appeals court decision had been allowed to
stand, landowners would have been required to obtain
industrial discharge permits, similar to large factories
and other manufacturing facilities, prior to harvesting.
This would essentially render forestry operations
uneconomical.
The Hardwood Federation visited House and
Senate offices earlier this month to move legislative
fixes to the existing bio-preferred program at USDA.
Strategy is dual tracked. On one track, introduction of
standalone legislation in the House and Senate that
would specifically qualify forest products, including all
lumber products, for the bio-preferred program is being
pushed.
This program includes both a federal
procurement preference for bio-preferred products as
well as a labeling piece.
Another track is Agriculture Appropriations. The
Hardwood Federation met with House and Senate
Appropriators regarding language in the 2014 Ag
appropriations bill that would either include policy fixes
to the program or defund it outright if it continues to be
implemented in its current form.
Rob Bishop (R-UT), House Subcommittee
Chairman
on
Public
Lands
and
Environmental
Regulation,
held
an
oversight
hearing,
“State
Forest
Management: A Model for Promoting
Healthy Forest, Rural Schools and Jobs.”
The hearing focused on the importance of
proper forest management to generate revenues to fund
schools, emergency response teams, local transportation
projects, and other programs vital to rural communities.
Certain state managed forests, which are not subject to
onerous federal regulations and can rely more on local
land managers rather than distant federal bureaucrats,
generate significantly more revenue per acre at a far less
cost than federally managed lands.
O
utlook
“After languishing for
several years, the U.S.
remodeling industry appears to be pulling out of its
downturn, and a renewal of the nation’s housing stock is
underway,” declared a Harvard joint Center for Housing
Studies (JCHS) report issued on January 23rd. “The U.S.
Housing Stock: Ready for Renewal” predicts that higher
home prices, rising homeowner equity and pent up demand
from 5 years of “underinvestment” in existing homes will
fuel robust growth in remodeling for years to come. excerpted from Hardwood Review Express
Curtis Struyk, WHA member, and
president of TMX Shipping and founder of
Carolina Ocean Lines, reported recently that
developments in ocean freight should keep
prices stable and vessel space available in
2013. Forest products industry exports in
recent years have dramatically increased.
Carolina Ocean Lines and other companies
like it, have been able to offer advantages like better
pricing, allocation on vessels, and port issues by grouping
companies under one vessel operating carrier.
In a world obsessed with information, few of us take
the time to analyze the information with which we are
bombarded. Especially when it comes to economic
indicators issued by government agencies, we generally
accept the conclusions without questioning the veracity or
true meaning of the data behind them.
Most recently, we’ve all heard the string of glowing
reports about employment and housing: rising permits,
rising starts, rising prices, rising jobs, falling
unemployment, etc.. While the conclusions are drawn
almost exclusively on “seasonally adjusted” data, most
readers-and reporters-completely miss the significance of
this modifier. When the Census Bureau reported steadily
rising housing starts in the second half of 2012 for
example, the media and casual observers missed the fact
that starts were only rising on a seasonally adjusted basis.
On the ground, single-family housing starts declined
steadily during the period. The difference between the
headlines and the here and now lies in seasonal
adjustment. -excerpted from Hardwood Review Express
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Overall, hardwood lumber activity on the West Coast
is good according to sources there. An
Oregon supplier said that for a lot of
people, business has been fairly good in the
lumber industry. It remains to be seen,
however whether that is due to new business
or restocking .
Sawmill production in Quebec has not
increased to the expected winter levels.
During warm temperature months when
green lumber output slows, the additional
volume normally helps supplement the
market’s needs. Furthermore, a number of
reports insist sawmill production is falling
behind rising demand in current business.
Contacts in the Ontario marketplace awaited the
seasonal rise in whitewood production as
inventories flowed through the supply
stream. They noted that more material is
needed to restore depleted supplies in
time for the spring thaw.
John
K.
Smith,
President & CEO of Pennsylvania
Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company,
has been selected by the Philadelphia Fire
Department
Historical
Corporation
(PFDHC) and Firemen’s Hall Museum to be
inducted as an honorary chief in the Union Fire Company.
Benjamin Franklin and his colleagues formed the Union
Fire Company in 1736, the city’s first volunteer fire
company which served as a model for volunteer companies
that followed throughout the nation. In 1976 Fireman’s
Hall Museum reactivated this company to honor those
individuals who have made significant contributions to
Fireman’s Hall Museum. PLMINS is a WHA member and
John represents us on the Hardwood Federation Board.
They are also a sponsor of the upcoming International
Convention & Exposition.
EUTR backgrounder from Mike
Snow - As most of you are well aware, the
EU Timber Regulation-which imposes on
EU importers similar requirements to the
Lacey Act in the U.S.-came into force on
March 3, 2013. This has created much
confusion in the market place, and many
European importers have responded by
requesting their
suppliers provide
documents, such as “FLEGT VPA Licenses” or other
Up Coming Meetings
April 2, 2013
Skyline Analysis With Skyline XL
Springfield, OR
Email: [email protected]
April 3, 2013
Tim ber Sale Appraisals With LogCost
HaulCost
Springfield, OR
Email: [email protected]
&
April 22 -23, 2013
Conference: Innovation in Manufacturing
Roanoke, VA
Email: [email protected]
April 25 -27, 2013
Washington Farm Forest Association Annual
Meeting
Tacoma, WA
Email: [email protected]
April 30 -May 2, 2013
Western Hardwood International Convention
and Exposition
Portland, OR
Email: [email protected]
May 1, 2013
Western Hardwood Association Annual Meeting
Portland, OR
Email: [email protected]
May 1, 2013
Washington Hardwoods Commission
Meeting
Portland, OR
Email: [email protected]
Annual
May 24, 2013
Workshop: Drying Lum ber with a Solar Kiln
Blacksburg, VA
Email: [email protected]
June 5, 2013
WHA Board Meeting
TBD
Email: [email protected]
June 19 -21, 2013
Conference: National Conference on Diversity
in Nature Resources
Blacksburg, VA
Email: [email protected]
“certificates of legality,” that simply do not exist for U.S.
hardwoods. This confusion is largely due to continuing
misinterpretation of the EUTR obligations by some EU
importers. In part, this is to be expected, given the
challenge of rolling out a complex and untried regulation
across thousands of importers in 27 EU Member States.
However, the European Commission (EC) did not help the
situation by delaying publication of its own formal
guidance on EUTR until February 7th, less than a month
before the regulations went into force. Mike will be a key
presenter at the Western Hardwood International
Convention & Exposition April 30-May 2, 2013 in
Portland, OR. -excerpted from Hardwood Review Express
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The March 14 Oregon Wild guest viewpoint
misinterpreted Governor Kitzhaber’s O&C Lands report in
concluding, “You can’t fund county budgets through clear
-cutting without violating the Clean Water
Act, the Endangered Species Act and
numerous other laws.”
Others have
indicated a similar misunderstanding. The
governor’s report actually states: “Given
the results of the modeled scenarios above,
generating $110 million for county
revenues entirely with federal timber
receipts and respecting environmental laws and their
existing interpretation appear to be mutually exclusive.”
In fact, providing a high level of revenue to the counties
by managing the forest under the principles of sustained
yield and meeting the objectives of the environmental
laws need not be mutually exclusive.
For the past few years, local leaders and federal
lawmakers have regularly emphasized a need to open
forests to more timber harvest and active management.
For the most part, the barrage of messages had seemingly
fallen on deaf ears as the forest stands have continued to
grow more crowded and fall victim to wildfires, disease,
and insect infestation.
G
et Motivated
Tell Me More
By Larry Dennis
While having lunch in the Denny's restaurant in Union
Gap, Washington, I noticed a family come in; Grandma,
son and a grandson. At one point, Grandma was talking
on her cell phone and I could easily hear her trying to
make arrangements to do some babysitting for a younger
grandson somewhere in a neighboring town. When she
said goodbye and turned off her cell phone, she began to
talk with her son about her phone. The most interesting
thing I overheard her say was to her grandson, who looked
to be about 12 years old. He was trying to show her how
to use some additional features on her phone, some things
like favorite callers. She said, "No, no, don't tell me
anymore, don't tell me anymore." She knew as much as
she wanted to learn about the many miraculous features of
her phone. I thought, "Wow, how true and tragic this is
for so many of us." We've learned all we want to learn. I,
for one, will certainly admit that my cell phone and
computer have many applications that I am sure could
make my life easier if I knew how to use them. It may be
easy for us to say, "No, don't tell me anymore" about our
electronic labor-saving devices like our cell phones. A
popular slang expression of the past few years is, "been
there, done that." Hopefully we're not
saying this about our life. If you get to that
place, the place where you say "no, no,
don't tell me, don't teach me anymore,"
you will soon be outmoded, of less and
less value to your company, your family
and yourself. The next step in the downward cycle, is
finding yourself shelved, ignored, passed over, excluded,
sidelined. Then comes your reward - you will be able to
declare yourself a victim. There's no place where we have
less power than if and when we allow ourselves to slip
into the victim mode.
On the other hand, if you stay up, stay on top of
things, keep learning, you will always be relevant. I don't
mean you have to be up on everything; you can't, no one
can keep up with everything in our fast changing
world. In 2008 there were 8,000 apps for our smart
phones. Today there are over 1,300,000 and growing
every day.
To remain relevant, keep on learning something new
every day, remain curious like a child, keep
exploring. Learning something new, how to do something
you couldn't do before, has its own reward. The feeling of
success, of victory, the discovery of personal power
cannot be bought, won or gifted; it must be earned, and
regardless of your education level, your previous
achievements, you can begin the New Year with the
resolve to make it a year of exploration and
discovery. Doing this will ensure that 2013 is, in fact, a
New Year for you. You will never be outmoded and
you'll be able to join the ranks of what a Harvard study
called "The Young Old's"; you will keep every cell young,
you will be relevant all of your life.
Larry Dennis is the founder of Turbo Leadership Systems, an
executive team building and leadership skills development
organization. For more information about his programs, please visit
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Western Hardwood Int’l Convention & Exposition
April 30:
Morning Session
Registration opens
Exhibitor set-up
Opening Keynote Speaker - US Congresswoman Jaime Herrera-Beutler - Regulations and
Political Climate Affecting Harvest and Shipment of PNW Hardwoods
10:30 a.m.
Exhibitor Showcase
12:00 p.m.
Lunch
7:30 a.m.
7:30 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
Afternoon Session
1:00 p.m.
Seminar #1: Environmental Policies-Trade and Impacts on the PNW Hardwood Industry - Mike
Snow, American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC)
2:30 p.m.
Seminar #2: Exporting and Importing Hardwoods Without Costly Mistakes - Panel: Mike Snow,
AHEC; Brenda Barnes, Allports; Jennifer Woods, US Commercial Service/US Dept. of Commerce
3:30 p.m.
Exhibitor Showcase
Evening
5:30 p.m.
Reception, Dinner, Auction
May 1:
Morning Session
Exhibitor Showcase
Seminar #3: UW Western Hardwood Inventory Assessment - What's Available in 2013 to 2040
for Harvest - Team headed by Bruce Bare, Dean Emeritus, University of Washington, Director
Institute of Forest Resources
10:30 a.m.
Seminar #4 - Concurrent Sessions
8:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
 Design Trends Affecting PNW Hardwoods - Amy Running, Boora Architects; Nicholas Hartrich,
Green Building Council; Ian Hanna, Forest Stewardship Council
 Western Hardwood Grades and Their Use - Dana Spessert, National Hardwood Lumber
Association; Rick Engebretsen, Collins Companies; Jeff Wirkkala, Hardwood Industries
12:00 p.m.
Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:00 p.m.
Seminar #5 - Concurrent Sessions
 Manufacturing with Hardwoods - Mike Lipke, Trillium Pacific Millwork; Lee Jimerson, Collins
Companies; Scott Leavengood, OWIC, Oregon State University
1:30 p.m.
 Alder Growth & Yield Model - Andrew Bluhm, Oregon State University
Seminar #6 - Concurrent Sessions
 PNW Hardwood Veneer Production and Use Trends - Michael Blakley, States Industries
2:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
 Superior Seedlings for Superior Alder - Barri Herman - WSU
Exhibitor Showcase
Concurrent Sessions
 WHA Annual Meeting - Mission, Certification, Membership, Elections
3:30 p.m.
 WHC Annual Meeting - Impact of Government Regulations, Lacey Act, Elections
Exhibitor Showcase
Evening
5:00 p.m.
Oregon Microbrew Reception in Exhibit Hall
May 2:
8:00 a.m.
Mill Tour
 East to Boardman - Collins Companies Upper Columbia Mill (Pacific Albus saw mill)
 South to Eugene - States Industries (veneer plant) with stop at Trillium Pacific Millwork
Meet Our Expo Sponsors and Partners
R egis t er online a t w w w. w e ste rn h a rdw ood. org
Sponsors, Exhibitors and Partners
Western Hardwood
International
Convention & Exposition
An estimated 300 Asian, European and U.S. East Coast buyers will be exposed to a smorgasbord of western hardwoods
from primary producers, secondary producers, and wholesalers, plus importers and exporters. More than 30 exhibitors
will be available to show over a dozen western hardwood species. Lumber, millwork, and finished products will be
highlighted. Information and training seminars will also be featured during the two-day event.
Sponsor Information
Full page ad in program book, logo on souvenir carry bag, feature in promotion
Alder
$10,000 materials, recognition in monthly newsletter, 3 free registrations, free premier
Pacific
Albus
$5,000 materials, recognition in monthly newsletter, 2 free registrations, free premier
Big Leaf
Maple
$3,000 materials, recognition in monthly newsletter, 1 free registration, on-site banner.
exhibit space, free banquet, on- site banner.
¾ page ad in program book, logo on souvenir carry bag, feature in promotion
exhibit space, on site banner.
½ page ad in program book, logo on souvenir carry bag, feature in promotion
Oak
$1,000
Madrone
$500
¼ page ad in program book, logo on souvenir carry bag, feature in promotion
materials and on-site sponsor banner, recognition in monthly newsletter, 1 free
registration.
⅛ page ad in program book, logo on souvenir carry bag, feature in promotion
materials and on-site sponsor banner, recognition in monthly newsletter.
Exhibit Information
Partner Organizations
The Expo agenda will include exclusive time slots in the
morning and afternoon on both days for attendee exhibitor
visitation. The fee does not include registration.
Premier location - $400 per 10' booth.
(including back wall and side bar draping, skirted table, sign)
Regular location - $250 per 10' booth.
(including back wall and side bar draping, skirted table, sign)
Organizations will promote the Expo on their website,
newsletters, and emails, all with link to the conference
registration page.
Partner organizations will receive one free registration
and banquet ticket and organization logo on all conference
promotional materials.
To be a Sponsor, Exhibitor, or Partner sign up online or email:
Western Hardwood Association
P.O. Box 1095, Camas, WA 98607 USA • 360-835-1600 www.westernhardwood.org • [email protected]
April 30 - May 2, 2013 • DoubleTree Lloyd Center • Portland, OR