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WORLDWIDE
FOREST/BIODIVERSITY CAMPAIGN NEWS
ACTION
ALERT: Boise Cascade's Flawed Business Practices
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11/29/00
OVERVIEW
& COMMENTARY
Boise
Cascade of the United States is indeed one of the World's worst
destroyers
of ancient old-growth forests - a corporate dinosaur
completely
out of touch with industry trends. They
log and sell wood
and
paper products from many of the World's remaining old-growth
forest
wildernesses, threatening the existence of these cathedrals to
evolutionary
brilliance and ecosystem necessity.
Join Rainforest
Action
Network in demanding that Boise Cascade start meeting the
demands
of consumers; and phase out logging and selling of all wood
products
from old growth forests, stop logging public lands in the
United
States, cease converting native forests to plantations and
planting
genetically modified trees, and adopt logging standards that
meet or
exceed those of the Forest Stewardship Council. Only forest
industry
companies that meet these demands will survive into the next
decade-the
rest will be shut down as a result of their own short-
sightedness.
g.b.
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Title: Boise Cascade's Flawed Business
Practices
Source: Rainforest Action Network Action Alert,
http://www.ran.org/
Date: October 2000
Headquartered
in Idaho, Boise Cascade is one of the country's top
loggers
and distributors of old growth forest products. Boise Cascade
is
logging and selling wood and paper products from the world's
rarest
and most endangered forests. For example, Boise Cascade is
actively
logging old growth forests in Idaho, throughout the Pacific
Northwest,
and in central Canada. Boise Cascade also sells wood
products
that have been ripped from the tropical rainforests of the
Amazon
and Southeast Asia, and serves as a prime distributor of wood
from
British Columbia's beautiful Great Bear Rainforest. Boise
Cascade
is increasingly out of step with modern public values and its
business
practices are indefensible in today's marketplace.
To
catch up with public values and meet the new standards being
demanded
by customers, Boise Cascade will need to undertake a
fundamental
transformation of its business practices.
Rainforest
Action Network is calling on Boise Cascade to:
* Phase
out logging and selling of all wood products from old growth
forests.
*
Terminate all logging and selling of wood products from public
lands
in the United States.
*
Commit to no further conversion of native forests to plantations.
* Cease
development and planting of genetically modified trees.
* Adopt
logging standards that meet or exceed those of the Forest
Stewardship
Council.
Take
Action for Our Forests
With
more than $7 billion in annual sales, Boise Cascade is among the
nation's
largest and wealthiest forest products companies. Yet in
order
to survive as a business entity, the company must listen to its
customers.
You can make a difference by writing to Boise Cascade
today
and expressing your opposition to destructive and predatory
logging.
Please
Send an Email to Boise Cascade's Chief Executive Officer. You
can do
so easily from Rainforest Action Network's interactive action
alert
at:
http://www.ran.org/info_center/aa/boise.html
Or
otherwise use the information below to send your own email to
bcweb@bc.com
.
Recipient:
George Harad, CEO, Boise Cascade Corporation
Subject:
Stop logging old growth wood!
George
Harad
Chief
Executive Officer
Boise
Cascade Corporation
1111 W.
Jefferson St.
Boise,
ID 83728
Email:
bcweb@bc.com
Dear
Mr. Harad:
I am
writing to express my deep disappointment regarding Boise
Cascade's
destructive logging. I understand that Boise Cascade is
actively
logging old growth forests in the U.S. and Canada, and is
actually
selling wood products that have been cut from our planet's
most
precious and rare forests in Brazil, Southeast Asia, and
elsewhere.
Our culture no longer slaughters elephants for their ivory
tusks; it
is equally unacceptable to cut down old growth forests for
2x4's
and office paper in this day and age.
I urge
your company to commit to eliminate logging and selling old
growth
wood products and to phase out logging on U.S. public lands.
Until your
company makes these commitments, I will not support any
business
that carries Boise Cascade wood and paper products.
For the
forests,
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