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2Q uote for the Month"Success is the sum of small eorts repeated day in and day out." — Robert CollierOutlookWest Coast sales contacts have a mixed results regarding their sales currently.An Oregon source said he is seeing more acvity in the marketplace. More quotes are turning into orders although it is about the same as six months ago. Poplar is a best seller and white oak is strong. Another Oregon lumberman shared that his sales were slow. His market is about the same as six months ago, but it seems to him that much of the hardwood industry In this issue:* Upcoming Events* Quote for the Month* Outlook* Manager's Moments* Hardwood Federaon Update* News* MovaonNo. 671February 2025WHA Board of Directors - OcersTeana Larson PresidentLouie Guyee Vice PresidentVernadel Peterson TreasurerAaron Blumenkron Immediate Past PresidentWHA Board of Directors - Board MembersSco ClarkAdam DupliseaMarlin LangworthySco LeavengoodMike LipkeBrad MichaelRyan PetersonDennis SandersDavid SweitzerSecretary/ManagerPO Box 1894Bale Ground, WA 98604Ph: (360) 835-1600Web: www.westernhardwood.orgEmail: wha@westernhardwood.orgUpcoming Events February 26, 2025WHA Board of Directors Meetingwha@westernhardwood.orgFebruary 26-March 2, 2025AHMI ANnual Meetingwww.appalachianhardwood.org/meetings/March 17-19, 2025IHLA Convention & Expositionwww.ihla.org/ihla-conventionAugust 18-20, 2025WHA Annual Conventionwha@westernhardwood.org

3sectors are depressed right now.In California, a lumber industry representave noted that sales remain largely order-to-order. Whilebusiness is steady, buyers are reluctant toplace orders without a conrmed sale and adeposit in hand. He ancipates this paernwill connue for several more months.Manager's MomentsDave SweitzerSecretary/Manager, WHAInuenced by the NumbersEveryone knows that the larger thenumbers the greater the voice. Simply said, we are moreinuenal when we represent a large group than when westand alone. We can have a strong voice as we approachlocal and state authories, especially on issues we areopposed to as well as those that are favorable to us.Likewise, we are members of the Hardwood Federaonthat can use our numbers as they lobby Congress in DC.And similarly, as members of the American HardwoodExport Council, we give added clout to their eorts.The WHA has your back! We need your backing toconnue the ght for hardwoods. If you have not paid yourdues that were due January 1, 2025, won't you please do sotoday?Update from HardwoodFederaonDana Cole, Execuve DirectorFebruary 2025USFS to Withdraw Proposal toAmendment of Forest ManagementPlans: During the days ahead, the USFS will publish a noce in the Federal Register, formallywithdrawing a proposed environmental assessment thatwould have paved the way for wholesale amendment offorest management plans, triggering a “one-size ts” allapproach to old growth forests. Fortunately for hardwoods,the agency’s decision is consistent with HardwoodFederaon comments led in September, urging theagency “to take no acon” with respect to the proposal.Ulmately, USFS acon would have removed even moreacreage from sustainable management. In more goodnews for hardwoods, the USFS will now connue to addressthe old growth through the 2012 Planning Rule whichgoverns the forest planning process, an outcome that theFederaon urged the USFS to connue within the contextof comments led in September.President Trump Commits to Taris on Canadianand Mexican Products Connues to Threaten China: On Patrick Lumber CompanyOver 100 Years in Business---- Est 1915 ----Products:Doug FirWestern Red CedarSouthern Yellow PineWestern HemlockAlaskan Yellow CedarWest Coast SoftwoodsWest Coast HardwoodsServices:RemanufacturingPackaging & TransportConsultationProcurement33415 Noon Rd. Philomath, OR 97370503-222-9671sales@patlbr.comFollow us on Instagram @Patricklumberpatlbr.comPatrick Lumber Company is a secondary manufacturer and exporter of niche high-grade woodproducts sold to a network of worldwide distribution.

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5Thursday aernoon, President Trump announced to reporters that he would follow through on his threat to impose 25% taris on imports from Canada and Mexico on Saturday Feb. 1, cing the ow of fentanyl and large trade decits as among the reasons for his decision. This could have signicant impacts on the U.S. Hardwood industry in terms of both lumber and logs exported to both countries as well as supplies and machinery used in logging, mills, yards, and other operaons. He also reiterated threats to impose taris of unknown proporons on China and the European Union.The Federaon has not been sing sll, and we are prepared. We knew the President was and is serious about taris and would no doubt take promised acon one way or another. In order to be ready to ght for the industry on day one, the Board and sta have been developed a relief funding formula that will be proposed to policy makers should retaliatory taris be imposed on U.S. hardwood exports as a result of Administraon acon. In ancipaon of retaliatory acon, we are taking the proposal to our allies on Capitol Hill over the next several days to assess the potenal and challenges of implementaon. Stay tuned. You will no doubt be called into acon sooner rather than later.Biparsan Bill Downgrades China Trade Status as White House Sends Mixed Signals, Federaon Prepares to Respond: On January 23, Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), chairman of the House Select Commiee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) joined Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) to introduce the “Restoring Trade Fairness Act.” This biparsan bill would revoke China’s Permanent Normal Trade Relaons (PNTR) status, a designaon which eecvely classies a country as a free trade partner. Meanwhile, recent statements from the Administraon illustrate the uncertainty surrounding trade policy, Treasury Secretary Sco Bessent stated this week that the Administraon would support universal taris, which apply to all countries without targeng specic trading partners, of 2.5%. On the heels of Bessent’s statement, President Trump told a gaggle of reporters that he backed universal taris much higher than 2.5%. The Administraon has also signaled that taris of up to 25% could be imposed on Mexican and Canadian goods as soon as this weekend if certain condions related in immigraon and drug tracking are not met.

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7NewsWildre soluon - "The best way to prevent wildre is to acvely manage forests. Instead of spending billions to prevent them, we can generate revenue for other important issues", says Mike Lipke, WHA Government Aairs chair.You may want to watch this 3-minute explanaon of what has happened to our forests since President Clinton's Northwest Forest Plan. The presenter is Dr. Bob Zybach, who has a PhD in forest re history and has spent his career with his boots on the ground.Dr. Zybach is an advocate of forest management and through research and witnessing is not in favor of Habitat Conservaon Plans (HCP) that shut down forests to management. He has linked many serious problems with HCPs that impact us economically, the resiliency of our forests, wildlife, our health, water and air.A New House Bill Would Erase Presidenal Public Land Powers Enshrined by Theodore Roosevelt (Field and Stream) In June of 1906, during his second Presidenal term, Theodore Roosevelt signed a law granng future U.S. Presidents the power to designate or expand Naonal Monuments on exisng federal land. Known as the Anquies Act, the bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representaves by another conservaon stalwart of the me, Iowa Congressman John F. Lacey. Last week, two members of the current House of Representaves unveiled a bill that would take presidenal authority out of the Anquies Act altogether. Roosevelt used the broad powers of the Anquies Act eighteen mes to increase protecons for places like the Arizona's Grand Canyon and Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Since then, U.S. Presidents have invoked the law more than 150 mes, according to the Boone & Crocke Club. READ MOREA large Oregon forest meant to oset planet warming emissions was burned three years ago in a wildre, and the project had to be pulled from a carbon credit market that aims to ght against climate change. Now, its owners want to re-enter some of those burned acres into California’s carbon market, which sells credits based on the amount of emissions stored by trees. When trees are burned, they release some of those stored emissions, but the owners, Green Diamond Resource Company, maintain that the scorched land sll oers some climate benets. The move would mark a rst, and it worries crics. They say that the land is already in an area ripe for wildres, and they’re concerned that re-enrolling high-risk land would set a precedent that could undermine carbon creding markets, which mark one approach to curtailing harmful emissions. In 2021, the Bootleg Fire burned a quarter of the 435,000-acre Klamath East carbon project. In response, the California Air Resources Board removed the project from its carbon oset market last year because it could no longer meet its promise of capturing and storing the hundreds of thousands of metric tons of carbon dioxide Wood treatment plant manufacturing, worldwide since 1983.The most environmentally friendly wood treatment ever known!Hydro-Thermo Modication 1-877-785-0274 www.americanwoodtechnology.comAmerican Wood Technology AWT Options: design, fabrication, layouts & accessories• Smallest footprint & simplest installation• Most gentle process available• Most eective heat transfer• Fastest process time & better product quality• Lowest processing cost per board footOur thermo plant designs provide:

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9that was promised. Baumhardt, A. (2025, January 21). Forest owner wants to put burned acreage back into carbon oset market, but crics skepcal • Oregon Capital Chronicle. Oregon Capital Chronicle. hps://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/01/21/forest-owner-wants-to-put-burned-acreage-back-into-carbon-oset-market-but-crics-skepcal/ .President Donald Trump’s decision on his rst day in oce to li logging restricons in Alaska’s Tongass Naonal Forest rekindles a ght about the future of one of the world’s last remaining temperate rainforests. Bale lines around the issue took on a familiar look, as environmental groups vowed to resist the new administraon’s moves and proponents of more development cheered that the long-brewing debate has once again turned in their direcon. Heller, M. (2025, January 22). E&E News: Trump reignites debate on Alaska logging. subscriber.policopro.com. hps://subscriber.policopro.com/arcle/eenews/2025/01/22/trump-reignites-debate-on-alaska-logging-00199945Human, Obernolte Re-introduce Biparsan Legislaon to Increase Wildre Resiliency (Human Press) - U.S. Representaves Jared Human (D-CA-02) and Jay Obernolte (R-CA) introduced the Community Protecon and Wildre Resilience Act to help local communies defend themselves from the growing danger of wildres. This bill will empower communies to implement science-based methods for migang wildre damage and provide funding to design and implement new Community Protecon and Wildre Resilience Plans with community members, rst responders, and relevant state agencies. READ MORERepublican lawmakers are circulang a bill that would prohibit foreign adversaries from acquiring ag or forestry land in Wisconsin. Sen. Andre Jacque, R-De Pere, along with Reps. William Penterman, R-Hussford, and Elijah Behnke, R-Town of Chase, recently sent a co-sponsorship memo to other lawmakers seeking support for the legislaon. They point to biparsan concerns around the issue of foreign ownership of U.S. farmland, nong it has “nearly doubled” over the past decade. In Wisconsin alone, foreign agricultural interests now own more than 500,000 acres of land in the state, according to the memo, which notes that gure has been increasing by tens of thousands of acres every year. READ MOREThe Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently selected VisualVault, LLC to develop a cloud soware soluon to manage forest pracces applicaons and nocaons. The award represents the culminaon of the previously issued public request for proposals and compeve bidding process. As the DNR is responsible for managing the state’s forest assets, it requires an advanced digital soluon that could serve to accept, process and manage all cizen and business requests related to the usage and maintenance

10of Washington forest assets. VisualVault’s licensing, case management and enforcement proposal and technology were deemed the best soluons for end-to-end management of a broad base of transacon types. READ MOREThe House passed the Fix Our Forests Act along biparsan lines Thursday as a response to the devastang wildres in California that have destroyed thousands of homes. The legislaon, introduced by Reps. Sco Peters (D-CA) and Bruce Westerman (R-AR), passed 279-141, with the support of 64 Democrats. The bill came as Democrats and Republicans have clashed over how to handle the Los Angeles wildres, which are on track to be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump oated pung condions on disaster aid to California by tying it to forest management reforms or the debt ceiling — a situaon Democrats have blasted as "completely inappropriate." House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters last week that a "serious conversaon" is needed regarding disaster aid, poinng to “water resource mismanagement, forest management mistakes, all sorts of problems" as reasons for the wildres. The Fix Our Forests Act is just one of several forest management bills likely to arise in Congress in the wake of the wildres. If signed into law, the bill seeks to ease perming hurdles and limit ligaon against forest thinning projects intended to prevent wildres. Schilke, R. (2025, January 23). Fix our forests act passes house as California bales devastang wildres. Colorado Springs Gazee. hps://gazee.com/news/wex/x-our-forests-act-passes-house-as-california-bales-devastang-wildres/arcle_45b6488e-049c-549a-86f8-3147943f9279.htmlWhy Republicans won’t let Newsom o the hook for raking the forest (Polico) Republicans keep mining the forest management vein because they have a point: Academic commissions convened by both the Newsom and Biden administraons agree that a century of aggressively beang back res that can keep vegetaon in check and forests healthy, including eliminang Indigenous controlled burns, has led to a nderbox in California and across the West. READ MOREManufacturing employment drops as the overall labor market exhibits strength: Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 256,000 in December, blowing past the expectaon of 155,000. On the other hand, manufacturing employment fell by 13,000 in December, aer the November gain of 25,000 jobs didn’t fully recoup the 52,000 jobs lost in October.What it means: Manufacturing connues its trend of employment losses across numerous sectors ranging from computer and electronic products, which shed 6,200 jobs over the month, to motor vehicles and parts, which lost 4,100 jobs. - excerpted from excerpted from “NAM-Weekly Economic Report - January 13, 2025”| NAM. Naonal Associaon of Manufacturers.: n. pag.Rebound in aircra producon exaggerates December industrial producon jump: Manufacturing producon increased 0.6% in December, with a 6.3% gain in the aerospace and miscellaneous transportaon equipment index leading the increase, but manufacturing output was at over the year.What it means: Despite the dramac over-the-month boost to aerospace and miscellaneous transportaon equipment inang the strength of producon in December, decent gains occurred across other manufacturing sectors, providing hope for output in 2025. - excerpted from “NAM-Weekly Economic Report - January 21, 2025”| NAM. Naonal Associaon of Manufacturers.: n. pag.

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12Manufacturing opmism is waning in Kansas City: Manufacturing acvity contracted modestly in the Tenth District in January, while expectaons for future acvity remained posive but slipped from 17 to 15 from December.What it means: The month-over-month drop was due to modest declines in both durable and nondurable goods manufacturing. Aer months of contracon, manufacturers in the Kansas City Federal Reserve District are becoming less opmisc that acvity will turn a corner. - excerpted from excerpted from “NAM-Weekly Economic Report - January 27, 2025”| NAM. Naonal Associaon of Manufacturers.: n. pag.MovateHandicap Parking by Larry DennisWho do you think you are?Dale, a Plumbing Foreman for JH Kelly, a Vancouver based construcon rm providing services to commercial facilies, told Session 2 of the Leadership Development Lab™: "Aer a long day at work and driving through crowded, slow trac my wife and I nally arrived at Fred Meyer’s. I noced the small street racing car following us into the parking lot. There was one handicap spot le, and he darted into it! I was already irritable and now I was really full of disgust and righteous indignaon for this person’s inconsiderate illegal behavior. “Who does he think he is parking in that handicap spot?” 'As we were geng out of my truck, I was condemning, venng to my wife, Brendah. I decided I'd just walk across the parking lot and tell him a thing or two. I would have a "lile chat" with this guy about his inconsiderate, selsh behavior and ask him, "Who do you think you are?"'I was heated up, halfway across the lot when the door of his car opened. The driver swung his legs out, pulled a folding wheelchair from behind the seat, set it up, transferred himself, and wheeled his way into the store!'I don't know if he even knew I was there, but I knew. Boy, did I know, and boy did I have egg on my face!'The lesson I learned from this experience is to wait unl I have more informaon, a lot more informaon, before I jump to the conclusions that lead me to “cricizing, condemning, or complaining.” Things on the surface are not always what they seem to be.'The acon I call you to take is to be more observant and paent, get all the informaon and don’t’ be too quick to judge. Who appointed you the arbiter of worldwide jusce, anyway?'The benet you will gain is less stress, more ease, and with more informaon, you will nd yourself less judgmental. In the end, you’ll make beer choices."Leadership Principle #3 Don’t Cricize, Condemn, or Complain – Why is this principle so important? The 3C’s are so natural, so common and in the nal analysis never jused. Who are you to know all that could be known about the context and history of those you are prepared to condemn, cricize or complain about? This kind of judgemental behavior ALWAYS hurts you more than it helps improve your circumstance. Cricizing, aacking the character of the other person damages relaonships. Making crical judgements and comments about another person doesn’t endear you to the person you are burdening with your judgements and borders on immoral behavior. Complaining never makes us look like a great problem solver and it always lowers your immunity and energy. So, stop it! - Dennis, Larry. “Handicap Parking” The Turbo Charger (28 January. 2025): n. pag. Turbo Leadership Systems. Web.