Home Depot to limit wood sales ATLANTA (AP) - Home Depot, the nation's largest home-improvement retailer, will stop selling wood from environmentally endangered areas, a move that one environmental group said was "great victory for the forests." The chain that claims it sells more lumber than any other single company in the world, announced Thursday that the phase-out of sales of so-called "old-growth" wood will take effect in 2002. In addition to cutting out sales of lumber from threatened forests, Home Depot said the action also would cover the whole range of wood products, from brooms to doors. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560885205-15a>
