Greenpeace activists installed The Home Depot's logo on
a clear cut swath of ancient trees in British Columbia
Note: This release is available with photos at
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/media/press_releases/99_5_25.htm

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British Columbia, Canada, May 25,1999 - Greenpeace activists installed
The Home Depot's logo on a clear cut swath of ancient trees in British Columbia,
Canada, in protest of the company's refusal to stop selling wood from ancient forests.
Greenpeace will present the image of destruction at The Home Depot Annual Shareholders Meeting
tomorrow, May 26, in Atlanta, where shareholders will be voting on a resolution there to
address the issue of ancient forest destruction.

"Since 1992, The Home Depot has completely failed to make good on its
promises to stop destroying ancient forests as part of its business practices," said
Greenpeace Forest Issues Specialist, Ilyse Hogue. "These practices will no longer be tolerated by
the American public. Home Depot's shareholders have a critical opportunity at this meeting to
make a decisive change for the future and save one of North America's last ancient
forests."

The 10,000-square-foot logo, made from 4,000 pounds of recycled bed
sheets and clothing, is placed in a clearcut several hundred yards from the
Squamish River, a prime salmon habitat. The forest was cut by Interfor, one of the three primary
companies destroying the largest unprotected ancient temperate rainforest in the
world, the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia. The Home Depot is one of Interfor's
largest customers. The mountains around the area are checkered with 80-acre patches of stumps
where thousand- year-old trees once stood.

Temperate rain forests, like those in British Columbia, are among the
most threatened ecosystems in the world. "The United States has destroyed more than 95%
of its ancient forests," said Hogue. "Now Americans are the primary consumers of
ancient forest products from around the world, but they have not made the connection between
this destruction and the U.S. marketplace. We constructed this logo to drive that message
home."

The Home Depot is the largest Do-It-Yourself store in the world, and as
such is the largest retailer of wood products from ancient forests. With plans to double its
stores from nearly 800 to 1600 over next two years, The Home Depot will only accelerate the
destruction of these threatened ancient forests if it continues with its current
procurement practices.

Greenpeace is the leading independent organization which uses peaceful
and creative activism to protect the global environment.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, VIDEO, & PHOTOS CONTACT:
Racine Tucker-Hamilton, Greenpeace Media Officer, Atlanta, 202-256-4041
(cell) Andrew Davies, Greenpeace Media Officer, Washington, DC, 202-319-2432
Matthew Jacobson, Greenpeace Forest Issues Specialist on site in BC,
202-256-1441 (cell) Also see the Greenpeace USA website at
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/forests/

Andrew Davies
work: ++1-202-319-2432
cell: ++1-202-256-4042
Greenpeace USA Communications Department
andrew.davies@wdc.greenpeace.org