With annual inventories having just concluded for most retail lumberyards across the country, many executives and owners probably are waiting breathlessly for the numbers and figures to be reconciled. It is likely that some are hoping simply for the damage to their annual net income to be minimal, or at least less than last year, while a rare few are nervously confident their efforts throughout the past 12 months will produce an inventory figure that will at least be a non-factor to the bottom line.
