SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 
                          Washington, D.C.  20549 
                                 _________ 
  
                                  FORM 8-A 
  
  
             FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES 
                  PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE 
                      SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 
  
                           BOISE CASCADE CORPORATION
           (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) 
  
          Delaware                                 82-0100960      
 (State of incorporation or organization)     (I.R.S. Employer 
                                              Identification No.) 
  
 1111 West Jefferson Street, P.O. Box 50, Boise, Idaho 83728-0001 
 (Address of principal executive offices)             (Zip Code) 
  
 Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: 
  
 Title of each class                Name of each exchange on which 
 to be so registered                each class is to be registered 
  
 Common Stock Purchase Rights       New York Stock Exchange, Inc. 
  
                                    Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc. 
  
  
      If this form relates to the registration of a class of  securities
 pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to
 General Instruction A.(c), check the following box.  [X] 
  
      If this form relates to the registration of a class of  securities
 pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is  effective pursuant to
 General Instruction A.(d), check the following box.  [  ] 
  
 Securities Act registration statement file number to which this form
 relates: _____ (if applicable). 
  
 Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: 
  
                                     None
                               (Title of class) 


                INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT
  
  
 Item 1.   Description of Securities to be Registered. 
  
           On September 25, 1997, the Board of Directors of Boise Cascade
 Corporation (the "Company") renewed the Company's existing Rights Agreement
 (the "Existing Rights Agreement"), amended and restated as of September 25,
 1990, between the Company and First Chicago Trust Company of New York, as
 rights agent (the "Rights Agent"), by adopting a Renewed Rights Agreement
 between the Company and the Rights Agent (the "Renewed Rights Agreement"). 
 Pursuant to the Renewed Rights Agreement, the Company declared a dividend
 distribution of one Right for each share of the Company's common stock, par
 value $2.50 per share (the "Common Stock"), outstanding upon the
 "Expiration Date" under the Existing Rights Agreement (the "Record Date")
 and for each share of Common Stock issued or transferred from the Company's
 treasury between the Record Date and the Distribution Date (as defined
 below), and under certain circumstances thereafter.  The Record Date is
 expected to occur on December 13, 1998, but may occur in advance of that
 time under certain circumstances.  As described below, the new Rights are
 redeemable under certain circumstances at $.01 per Right, subject to
 adjustment, and will expire on December 13, 2008, subject to extension or
 earlier redemption or expiration. 

            The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in the
 Renewed Rights Agreement.  Capitalized terms used and not defined herein
 shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Renewed
 Rights Agreement. 

           Initially, the Rights will be attached to all certificates
 representing shares of Common Stock, and no separate Rights certificates
 will be distributed.  The Rights will separate from the Common Stock and a
 "Distribution Date" will occur upon the earlier of (i) 10 Business Days,
 subject to extension by the Company's Board of Directors, following a
 public announcement by the Company that a Person or group of affiliated or
 associated Persons, with certain exceptions (an "Acquiring Person"), has
 acquired beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the outstanding shares of
 "Voting Stock" -- capital stock of the Company which by its terms may be
 voted on all matters submitted to stockholders of the Company generally
 (the date of such announcement being the "Stock Acquisition Date") -- or
 (ii) 10 Business Days, subject to extension by the Company's Board of
 Directors, following the commencement of a tender offer or exchange offer
 that would result in a Person becoming an Acquiring Person. 

           Until the Distribution Date, (i) the Rights will be transferred
 with and only with such Common Stock certificates, (ii) the surrender for
 transfer of any Common Stock certificates will also constitute the transfer
 of the Rights associated with the Common Stock represented by such
 certificates and (iii) the Rights will not be exercisable.  The Rights will
 expire on December 13, 2008 (the "Final Expiration Date"), subject to
 extension by the Company's Board of Directors, unless the Rights are
 earlier redeemed or expire under the terms of the Renewed Rights Agreement. 

           As soon as practicable after the Distribution Date, separate
 certificates evidencing the Rights ("Rights Certificates") will be mailed
 to holders of record of the Common Stock as of the close of business on the
 Distribution Date, and from and after the Distribution Date, the separate
 Rights Certificates alone will evidence the Rights.  Except as otherwise
 required by the Renewed Rights Agreement or determined by the Board of
 Directors of the Company, only shares of Common Stock issued prior to the
 Distribution Date will be issued with Rights. 

           In the event (a "Flip-In Event") a Person becomes an Acquiring
 Person (except pursuant to a tender offer or exchange offer for all
 outstanding shares of Common Stock at a price and on terms which a majority
 of the Company's directors, which majority shall include a majority of the
 Company's outside directors (as determined in accordance with the Renewed
 Rights Agreement), determines to be fair to and otherwise in the best
 interests of the Company and its stockholders (a "fair offer")), each
 holder of a Right thereafter will have the right to receive, upon exercise
 of such Right (including without limitation payment of the Purchase Price),
 Common Stock (or, in certain circumstances, cash, property or other
 securities of the Company) having a Current Market Price equal to two times
 the Purchase Price of the Right.  The initial Purchase Price of a Right
 under the Renewed Rights Agreement, which is subject to adjustment, is
 $175.00 per share of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Right. 
 Notwithstanding the foregoing, following the occurrence of a Flip-In Event,
 all Rights that are, or (under certain circumstances specified in the
 Renewed Rights Agreement) were, beneficially owned by certain Acquiring
 Persons (or by certain related parties) will be null and void in the
 circumstances set forth in the Renewed Rights Agreement.  However, Rights
 will not be exercisable following the occurrence of any Flip-In Event until
 such time as the Rights are no longer redeemable by the Company as set
 forth below. 

           In the event (a "Flip-Over Event") that, at any time on or after
 the Stock Acquisition Date, (i) the Company shall take part in a merger or
 other business combination transaction (with certain exceptions) and the
 Company shall not be the surviving entity or (ii) the Company shall take
 part in a merger or other business combination transaction (with certain
 exceptions) in which all or part of the outstanding shares of Common Stock
 are changed or exchanged or (iii) 50% or more of the Company's assets or
 earning power is sold or transferred, each holder of a Right (except Rights
 which previously have been voided, as set forth above) shall thereafter
 have the right to receive, upon exercise, a number of shares of common
 stock of the acquiring company having a Current Market Price equal to two
 times the Purchase Price of the Right. 

           The Purchase Price of the Rights and the number and kind of
 shares issuable upon exercise of a Right are subject to equitable
 adjustment in the event of certain stock dividends, subdivisions, splits,
 combinations and consolidations, an issuance of certain rights, options or
 warrants and certain distributions of indebtedness, cash or other assets. 
 The Company may elect to adjust the number of Rights in lieu of any
 adjustment in the number of shares issuable upon exercise of a right. 

           At any time until 10 Business Days, subject to extension by the
 Company's Board of Directors, following the Stock Acquisition Date, the
 Company may redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.01
 per Right, subject to adjustment, payable, at the option of the Company, in
 cash, Common Stock or such other consideration as the Board of Directors
 may deem appropriate; provided, however, that the Rights may not be
 redeemed for 180 days after the effectiveness of an election which results
 in a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company being comprised of
 persons not nominated by the directors of the Company in office before the
 election if that redemption is reasonably likely to have the purpose or
 effect of allowing any person to become an Acquiring Person or facilitating
 the occurrence of a Flip-In Event, a Flip-Over Event or a transaction with
 an Acquiring Person.  Immediately upon the effectiveness of the action of
 the Company's Board of Directors ordering redemption of the Rights, the
 Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be
 to receive the $.01 per Right redemption price.  Under certain
 circumstances set forth in the Rights Agreement, the Company may exchange
 the Rights in whole or in part for shares of Common Stock.   

           In general, the terms of the Rights and other terms of the
 Renewed Rights Agreement may be amended by the Board of Directors of the
 Company prior to the Distribution Date.  Thereafter, the provisions of the
 Renewed Rights Agreement may be amended by the Board of Directors of the
 Company only in order to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, to
 make changes which do not adversely affect the interests of holders of
 Rights (excluding the interests of any Acquiring Person and certain other
 related parties) or to shorten or lengthen any time period under the
 Renewed Rights Agreement; provided, however, that no amendment to lengthen
 the time period governing redemption shall be made at such time as the
 Rights are not redeemable, or any other time period unless such lengthening
 is for the purpose of protecting or enhancing or clarifying the rights of,
 or the benefits to, the holders of Rights (other than an Acquiring Person
 or an Affiliate of an Acquiring Person).  Notwithstanding the foregoing,
 certain key financial terms of the Rights may not be supplemented or
 amended or only may be supplemented or amended on a limited basis. 

           Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will
 have no rights as a stockholder of the Company, including, without
 limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends.       

           As of September 30, 1998, there were 56,333,984 shares of Common
 Stock outstanding and no shares of Common Stock in the Company's treasury. 
 Each share of Common Stock outstanding on the Record Date will receive one
 Right.  As long as the Rights are attached to the Common Stock, the Company
 will issue one Right, subject to adjustment, for each share of Common Stock
 issued or transferred from the Company's treasury between the Record Date
 and the Distribution Date, and under certain circumstances thereafter, so
 that all such shares will have attached Rights. 

           The Rights have certain anti-takeover effects.  The Rights will
 cause substantial dilution to a person or group that attempts to acquire
 the Company on an unsolicited basis without conditioning the offer on
 either redemption of the Rights or a substantial number of Rights being
 acquired.  The Rights should not interfere with any merger or other
 business combination approved by the Board of Directors of the Company. 

           The Renewed Rights Agreement between the Company and the Rights
 Agent specifying the terms of the Rights, which includes as Exhibit A the
 form of Rights Certificate, is filed herewith as Exhibit 1 and is
 incorporated herein by reference.  The foregoing description of the Rights
 does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by
 reference to Exhibit 1. 

  
 Item 2.   Exhibits. 

           Exhibit 
           Number    Description of Exhibit 
           -------   ----------------------

           1         Renewed Rights Agreement dated as of September 25, 1997
                     between Boise Cascade Corporation and First Chicago
                     Trust Company of New York (which includes as Exhibit A
                     thereto the Form of Rights Certificate)*

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    *    Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrant's 
         Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q dated and filed with the Securities 
         and Exchange Commission on November 12, 1997 (File No. 1-5057)


                                 SIGNATURE 
  
  
           Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities
 Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this registration
 statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly
 authorized. 
  
                               BOISE CASCADE CORPORATION 
  
   
 Dated: November 24, 1998      By /s/ Karen E. Gowland 
                                 __________________________
                                 Name:  Karen E. Gowland 
                                 Title: Vice President 
  


                             INDEX TO EXHIBITS 
  
 Exhibit 
 Number    Exhibit                                                 Page No. 
 -------   -------                                                 --------
 
   1       Renewed Rights Agreement dated as 
           of September 25, 1997 between 
           Boise Cascade Corporation and First 
           Chicago Trust Company of New York (which 
           includes as Exhibit A thereto the Form 
           of Rights Certificate)*


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  *    Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the
       Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q dated and filed
       with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 12,
       1997 (File No. 1-5057)