SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205
BETTER CHOICES FOR THE PLANET
2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT 18-month calendar July 2020–December 2021 SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205
IT IS CRITICAL THAT WE WORK TOGETHER TO ENSURE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF OUR PLANET. People and organizations are seeking solutions that don’t just reduce negative impacts but ensure positive contributions to the long-term health of people and the planet. SFI-certified forests and products are powerful tools to achieve shared goals such as climate action, reduced waste, conservation of biodiversity, education of future generations, and sustainable economic development.
SFI PROVIDES PRACTICAL, SCALABLE SOLUTIONS FOR MARKETS AND COMMUNITIES WORKING TO PURSUE THIS GROWING COMMITMENT TO A SUSTAINABLE PLANET. When companies, consumers, educators, community, and sustainability leaders collaborate with SFI, they are making active, positive choices to achieve a sustainable future. Our mission is to advance sustainability through forest-focused collaborations. For 25 years, SFI has been a leader in sustainable forest management through our standards. In recent years, we have built on our successes and evolved into a solutions-oriented sustainability organization that addresses local, national, and global challenges.
Our recently updated mission, to advance sustainability through forest-focused collaborations, reflects this focus. Climate change, biodiversity, strength in diversity, clean water, the future of our youth, the importance of a walk in the forest, and the sustainability and resilience of our communities—these are some of the important issues that the SFI community is working to address. Thank you for We also realized that we will need a new generation of leaders to help us tackle the future challenges being a part of facing our planet. This led to the acquisition of Project Learning Tree in 2017 and the creation of Project Learning Tree Canada that same year. We believe that this increased focus on environmental education the SFI will help SFI make an even bigger difference. By leveraging our network to grow PLT and PLT Canada, community and we will help ensure our positive impact for another 25 years and beyond. for helping us I believe our work is more important now than ever before and our commitment to forests and the social and environmental benefits they provide will continue to position us to meet future challenges. make better Thank you, choices for the Kathy Abusow planet. President and CEO SFI Inc STANDARDS
PEOPLE AND COMPANIES ARE A GLOBAL REACH LOOKING FOR BETTER SOLUTIONS TO EASE PRESSURES ON THE PLANET — practical choices that will conserve nature, mitigate climate change, and cut waste and pollution. Choosing certified DELIVERING 11%OF THE WORLD’S OF GLOBAL sustainable forest products is a great 38% FORESTS ARE ROUNDWOOD PRODUCTION way to protect species, combat climate CERTIFIED change, reduce plastic pollution, and PRODUCTS CERTIFIED TO SFI STANDARDS ARE protect water supplies. SOLD IN
SFI STANDARDS HAVE BECOME THE SFI accounts FASTEST GROWING, HIGHLY TRUSTED COUNTRIES for almost SOLUTION that can support a growing need for products from the forest, as the drive to reduce carbon pollution SFI’s international recognition is increased by the endorsement of the Programme for the Endorsement 35% and waste intensifies. We are working of global of Forest Certification (PEFC). PEFC is an important to shape markets today and ensure certified forests and of PEFC certifications international umbrella program that facilitates the worldwide that sustainably managed forests will recognition of credible certification. 46% continue to play a crucial role in keeping the planet healthy.
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Promoting Sustainable Forest Management www.pefc.org MARKET RELEVANCE AND CONSUMER RECOGNITION SCALING FOR IMPACT
OF U.S. CONSUMERS ARE 2.5 MILLION TREES 54% AWARE OF THE SFI LOGO WERE PLANTED EVERY DAY ACROSS THE U.S. AND CANADA MORE THAN ANY BY SFI-CERTIFIED ORGANIZATIONS IN 2019 OTHER CERTIFICATION STANDARD according to a 2020 survey 375 MILLION ACRES / certified to the SFI Forest conducted by Two Sides Management Standard 152 MILLION HECTARES
OF MILLENNIALS WHO ARE AWARE OF THE SFI LABEL SAY IT IS A FSC 74% POSITIVE INFLUENCE WHEN THEY ARE MAKING PRODUCT DECISIONS CSA ATFS COMPARED WITH 62% OF BOOMERS
according to a 2020 survey conducted by EcoFocus Worldwide THE SFI FIBER SOURCING STANDARD ADVANCES SUSTAINABILITY BY ELEVATING PROCUREMENT TOP THREE REASONS SFI-CERTIFIED ORGANIZATIONS PRACTICES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ON TENS OF MILLIONS OF ACRES OF FORESTLAND WHICH USE THE SFI LOGO: 1. CREATES A POSITIVE CORPORATE IMAGE MEANS MORE CONSERVATION OF SPECIES AND WATER 2. PROOF POINT FOR RESPONSIBLE SOURCING QUALITY ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE. 3. REPRESENTS A RIGOROUS STANDARD CONSERVATION
SFI IS THE ONLY STANDARD WITH A REQUIREMENT FOR RESEARCH
THERE IS A GROWING AWARENESS THAT IF WE WANT TO GRAPPLE WITH FOREST HEALTH AND PRODUCTIVITY – 37% CLIMATE CHANGE, WATER QUALITY, LANDSCAPE/ECOSYSTEM – 12% WASTE REDUCTION, AND SPECIES $ WILDLIFE AND FISH – 12% LOSS, TAKING GOOD CARE OF OUR 57 FOREST OPERATIONS EFFICIENCIES – 11% FORESTS IS FUNDAMENTAL. Unique MILLION in forest research WATER QUALITY – 9% among certification standards, SFI in 2019 ALL OTHER RESEARCH AREAS – 19% mandates innovative and impactful conservation research that builds knowledge and improves forest NO OTHER FORESTRY outcomes. We provide a value-added STANDARD HAS A RESEARCH REQUIREMENT solution for customers of forest products who want to know that the Since 1995, SFI-certified companies have directly companies they source from are invested nearly $1.8 billion in forest research. In contributing to conservation results that $ 2019, 70% of these investments were allocated to improve the health of the planet. 1.8 BILLION conservation-related objectives.
OF RESEARCH FUNDING IS LINKED TO 70% CONSERVATION-RELATED OBJECTIVES A CULTURE OF COLLABORATION CONSERVATION IMPACT
ENSURE CLEAN WATER AND APPROPRIATE DIFFERENT CONSERVATION AND HABITAT FOR FISH LIKE TROUT AND SALMON RESEARCH PROJECTS REPORTED BY SFI-CERTIFIED COMPANIES IN 2019 RESTORE RARE FOREST TYPES AND HABITAT, INCLUDING 524 LONGLEAF PINE, AND FORESTED WETLANDS
MAINTAIN AND RESTORE HABITAT FOR SPECIES AT RISK WITH MORE THAN 900UNIQUE PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE
SUSTAINABLY MANAGED FORESTS CAPTURE CARBON 24% GOVERNMENT FASTER THAN UNTOUCHED FORESTS, BECAUSE 17% CONSERVATION YOUNGER TREES—PLANTED AFTER OLDER TREES ARE IN MULTIPLE SECTORS ACADEMIC INCLUDING: 13% HARVESTED—CAPTURE CARBON FASTER THAN OLDER 10% COMMUNITY TREES AS THEY GROW. 10% RESEARCH 26% OTHER COMMUNITY
COMMUNITIES RELY ON FORESTS FOR JOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SFI-TRAINED PROFESSIONAL HARVESTERS RECREATIONAL BENEFITS, AND HUMAN HEALTH. These links between people and forests have always been 34% important, but are even more relevant in 96% an increasingly connected and changing 1995 2019 world. Our work is focused on nurturing IN 2019, 96% OF ALL FIBER SUPPLIED a positive relationship between people TO SFI-CERTIFIED MILLS DELIVERED BY who live near and work in forests and TRAINED HARVESTING PROFESSIONALS the goals of a sustainable marketplace and healthy forests.
SFI IS PRESENT IN COMMUNITIES RESOURCE THROUGHOUT THE U.S. AND CANADA, AND HARVESTING PROFESSIONALS engaging locally to strengthen participated in training in 2019 to ensure 10,965 understanding of water quality, biodiversity, and partnerships and mutual understanding to reduce friction and build solutions other sustainable forest practice requirements (cumulative total since 1995: 213,977*). that are better for the planet and support the needs of consumers and *This total may include individuals who have completed training programs more than once. Data provided by Forest Resources Association. workers alike. SFI NETWORK 375 MILLION ACRES % OF 152 MILLION HECTARES provincial, state, and 96 IS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC FOR regional SFI Implementation 34 Committees OUTDOOR RECREATION $77 MILLION INVESTED BY SFI IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEES IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1995 NEARLY to support training of In 2019, the INDIGENOUS GROUPS resource and harvesting investment professionals, outreach to totaled family forest owners, and NEARLY environmental education. $2.6 million AND THEIR BUSINESSES HAVE ADOPTED, SUPPORT, AND ACTIVELY UTILIZE THE SFI FOREST MANAGEMENT 40INDIGENOUS STANDARD SFI COMMUNITY GRANTS COMMUNITIES enhanced capacity of SFI Implementation 15 Committees to support local communities and created impacts at scale with 78 partners SFI DIRECTLY SUPPORTS HABITAT across U.S. and Canada. FOR HUMANITY CANADA’S INDIGENOUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP EDUCATION
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BUILDING A NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERSHIP THAT WILL TAKE 3 MILLION RESPONSIBILITY FOR SOLVING ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES STUDENTS REACHED AND MARKET NEEDS IS ONE OF THE THROUGH AND BEST INVESTMENTS A SOCIETY CAN NEARLY SINCE PLT BEGAN MAKE. SFI works with educators and + IN 2019 others who help teach environmental 14,000 750 EDUCATORS WORKSHOPS knowledge, using modern techniques and the latest information about how to create a world where more people HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES AND know how to make better choices for LESSON PLANS FOR PRE-K–12 OVER the planet. Project Learning Tree, SFI’s PLT’S CARBON & CLIMATE 250 environmental education program, CURRICULUM WAS advances environmental literacy, SELECTED A LEARNING® stewardship, and career pathways using MAGAZINE 2020 TEACHERS’ of PLT’s lessons trees and forests as windows on the CHOICESM AWARD FOR THE % take CLASSROOM WINNER world. 53 students outdoors PLT CANADA PLACED YOUTH IN OVER ACHIEVED 2,500 GENDER IN GREEN JOB PLACEMENTS YEAR GREEN JOBS AFTER YEAR SINCE 2018 BALANCE
SUPPORTED EMPLOYERS 157 FROM THE SFI NETWORK IN 2019
THE OUTLAND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM OVER OF JOB PLACEMENTS WENT TO SINCE 2018 MILLION* % PLT CANADA & SFI NETWORKS INDIGENOUS HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE OUTLAND 12 APPROXIMATELY $1.5 YOUTH PROGRAM * $675,000 from PLT Canada and $800,000 from SFI-certified organizations. YOUTH SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205
SUSTAINABLY MANAGED FORESTS COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE FORESTS ARE UNDER PRESSURE FROM CLIMATE CHANGE 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT SFI-certified companies are helping to mitigate climate change through their use of our standards. The SFI Forest Management Standard requires a number of practices with direct climate benefits, such as ensuring forests remain as forests, requiring harvested areas JULY 2020 be promptly regenerated, and requiring practices that reduce the likelihood of wildfire or damaging invasive species.
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MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE NO DESK JOBS HERE 2,500 YOUTH IN GREEN JOBS ACROSS CANADA SINCE 2018 GREEN JOBS HELP INSTILL A PASSION FOR THE OUTDOORS 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT Project Learning Tree Canada’s Green Jobs program promotes careers in the forest, conservation, and parks sectors. Working with the SFI network we have placed 2,500 youth in green jobs across Canada since 2018. We have achieved gender balance across job placements. We have also prioritized Indigenous youth placements and built relationships AUGUST 2020 with Indigenous youth development organizations in the forest sector to provide opportunities and career support.
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REACHING 3 MILLION STUDENTS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN 2019 PLT SUPPORTS THE NEXT GENERATION OF FOREST AND CONSERVATION 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT LEADERS Learning about the environment and how to take care of it is more important than ever. Project Learning Tree, an initiative of SFI, advances environmental literacy, stewardship, SEPTEMBER 2020 and career pathways using trees and forests as windows on the world. Winner of a Teachers’ ChoiceSM Award in 2020 for its Carbon & Climate curriculum for grades 6-8 and in 2019 for its Energy in Ecosystems curriculum for grades 3-5, PLT teaches students how to think, not what to think about the environment.
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THERE IS GREAT STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY SUPPORTING DIVERSITY BUILDS SUCCESS 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT Supporting diversity helps achieve better outcomes for our society and our forests. SFI seeks to collaborate with a diversity of communities through grants and partnerships that reach underserved communities, including working with the Black Family Land Trust to support career pathways in OCTOBER 2020 the forest sector that increase land retention for African American families. The SFI standards also have language that requires certified organizations to have a written policy demonstrating commitment to comply with social laws, such as those covering civil rights, anti-discrimination and anti-harassment measures, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights.
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TAKING NEW WOOD TO HEIGHTS SFI-CERTIFIED WOOD PROVIDES BETTER BUILDING SOLUTIONS 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT Wood’s inherent properties—as a sustainable, natural, healthy, and renewable resource that stores carbon—make it an excellent choice for construction. Using wood certified to SFI increases environmental benefits, because the forest where the wood was sourced was managed to address critical global sustainability issues such as storing carbon to mitigate NOVEMBER 2020 climate change, conserving water quality, and ensuring a diversity of species.
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THANKSGIVING (US) 29 30 SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205 375 MILLION ACRES/ 152 MILLION HECTARES CERTIFIED TO THE SFI FOREST MANAGEMENT STANDARD SFI HAS THE SCALE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT Leveraging our scale is what provides us with the ability to have the biggest impact on many sustainability challenges. Beyond the land certified to the SFI Forest Management Standard, tens of millions of acres are positively influenced by the SFI Fiber Sourcing Standard, and more than 2,300 company sites around the world use the SFI Chain-of-Custody Standard. DECEMBER 2020 Connecting and leveraging SFI-certified organizations to collaborate on conservation or social issues is how we make the biggest impact across the U.S. and Canada.
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NEW YEAR’S EVE SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 THE SFI NETWORK 1995-20205 TRAINED 10,000+ LOGGERS IN 2019 SFI IS IN YOUR COMMUNITY. WE ARE THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT SFI responds to local needs through SFI Implementation Committees at the state, provincial, and regional levels. These committees work with local, forestry, and professional associations, universities, government agencies, landowner groups, conservation groups, and many others to promote SFI standards as a means to broaden the practice of responsible JANUARY 2021 forestry and achieve on-the-ground progress.
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THE SFI STANDARDS ENSURE CONSERVATION OF WATER RESOURCES IN CANADA AND THE U.S. FRESH THINKING ON WATER CONSERVATION 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT SFI ensures the use of best management practices for water quality in our standards and supports research on the connections between sustainable forest management and water conservation. A study done in collaboration between SFI and the University of Georgia proved that compliance rates for implementing forestry best management practices for water quality was higher in areas subject to sourcing by FEBRUARY 2021 SFI‑certified mills. This means that SFI’s Fiber Sourcing Standard, which positively influences millions of acres of managed forests, ensures watershed protections that directly benefit aquatic species and provide for the needs of millions of people downstream.
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SUSTAINABLY MANAGED FORESTS PROMOTE OVERALL FOREST HEALTH AND RESILIENCY OUR WORK SUPPORTS HEALTHY FORESTS 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT In many forested areas, there is no longer a single “fire season”—more than a billion acres in the U.S. alone are at risk of fires throughout the year. In Canada, an average of about 2.5 million hectares/6 million acres of land burn every year. SFI’s standards and conservation leadership provide practical solutions to reduce the impact of fire, climate change, and pests MARCH 2021 through thoughtful management and fuel reduction.
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PASSOVER SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205 FORESTS AND THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE CHOOSE SFI TO SUPPORT A CIRCULAR ECONOMY 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT The forest sector offers renewable products and innovative solutions, including paper-based packaging and tall wood buildings, that support the circular economy. Instead of a traditional linear economy based on a make, use, dispose of cycle, a circular economy extracts maximum value from products through recovery and regeneration at the end of use. Sourcing products APRIL 2021 from a sustainably managed forest, like those certified to SFI, is a good way to support a circular economy and conserve our planet’s precious resources.
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EARTH DAY 25 26 27 28 29 30 SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205
FORESTS PLAY A PIVOTAL ROLE IN THE MAINTENANCE AND RECOVERY OF SPECIES AT RISK SFI STANDARDS PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF FOREST ECOSYSTEMS AND SPECIES 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT SFI standards hold SFI-certified companies to the highest level of species and habitat conservation to help address global declines in multiple species. We partner with multiple conservation organizations and government agencies on species recovery and habitat conservation, which can have a greater impact than strict protection. SFI-certified forests provide habitat for forest birds, gopher tortoises, MAY 2021 caribou, and grizzly bears.
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30 MEMORIAL DAY (US) 31 SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205 SFI HAS PROUDLY PARTNERED WITH AND INVESTED IN OVER 120 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES ACROSS CANADA AND THE U.S. SFI VALUES THE IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FORESTS AND 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES SFI supports community-led forest-focused initiatives and partners with leading Indigenous organizations so that all communities are able to fully value and benefit from sustainably JUNE 2021 managed forests. Through growing and strengthening our relationships, SFI maintains strong alignment between SFI standards and the values, rights, and traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples.
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FATHER’S DAY NATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY (CAN) 27 28 29 30 SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205 96% OF FORESTS CERTIFIED TO THE SFI STANDARD ARE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC FOR OUTDOOR RECREATION SPENDING TIME IN A FOREST MAKES YOU HEALTHIER 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT SFI-certified forests provide a place for outdoor activities like camping, hiking, fishing, mountain biking, horseback riding, and so much more. Numerous studies in the U.S. and around the world have proven the health benefits of spending time outside in nature. Project Learning Tree offers a variety of free, fun activities that help connect families and children to the outdoors and nature. Spending time JULY 2021 around trees helps you focus, reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, and improves your mood.
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TO SUPPORT CAREER PATHWAYS PLT CANADA’S MENTORSHIP PROGRAM IS POWERED BY SFI’S NETWORK 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT PLT Canada’s mentorship platform helps create leadership opportunities for all types of people. By helping to build successful, productive, and trusting relationships, we help mentors and mentees work on goals that challenge them and help them to grow based on shared and changing perspectives. SFI believes that people can lead every day, no matter their job title, AUGUST 2021 and seek to support the future generation by providing communication tips, networking advice, and problem-solving tools so that they can reach their full potential.
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SUSTAINABLY MANAGED FORESTS SUPPORT THE UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS SFI-CERTIFIED FORESTS ADDRESS GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. SFI is committed to doing its part to address global sustainability challenges. SFI standards directly contribute to SDG indicators through landscape-level conservation to help conserve biodiversity, and will include a new objective focused on climate change mitigation and SEPTEMBER 2021 adaptation. Project Learning Tree directly contributes to Goal 4, Quality Education, through tailored and adaptable educational materials. Supporting this UN framework helps SFI and others in our network to make sustainable choices that benefit our shared future. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
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26 27 28 29 30 SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE AWARENESS OF SFI LABEL SFI-00001 2YEARS 1995-20205 RISING WITH KEY CONSUMERS THE SFI LABEL HELPS CONSUMERS CHOOSE SUSTAINABLY SOURCED PRODUCTS 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of their packaging choices. According to recent research, paper-based packaging is the preferred choice of consumers for its environmental attributes. The survey found that consumers are willing to change their behavior in order to shop more sustainably and to spend more on products that are packaged in sustainable materials. OCTOBER 2021 The same study also revealed that when it comes to environmental labels, 54% of consumers are aware of the SFI label.
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24 / 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205 1/3 OF CONSUMERS HAVE ACTIVELY TRIED TO BUY PRODUCTS PACKAGED IN SOMETHING OTHER THAN PLASTIC PAPER-BASED PACKAGING RISING TO THE TOP AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT PLASTIC PACKAGING We need to reduce the plastic going into landfills and our oceans. Paper and fiber-based packaging are solutions because they are renewable, recyclable, sourced responsibly, and biodegradable. When the packaging has an SFI label, there is an extra assurance NOVEMBER that the fiber used to make the packaging was sourced sustainably. Data shows that 2021 consumers prefer products that do not use plastic packaging, creating new opportunities for the forest sector to offer better choices for the planet.
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THANKSGIVING (US) 28 29 30 Source: 1/3 of Americans say that in the last three months they’ve actively tried to buy products packaged in something other than plastic (Shelton Communication Group 2019)
HANUKKAH BEGINS SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205 THE SFI STANDARDS REVISION PROCESS ENSURES CREDIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY BY ALLOWING EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE SHAPING THE SFI STANDARDS THROUGH THE STANDARDS REVISION PROCESS 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT A regular, transparent process for revision of the SFI standards is a critical part of SFI’s commitment to continual improvement. By leveraging expertise across our network through focused engagement, and by including open comment periods, SFI creates standards that are grounded in science, include diverse perspectives, and benefit consumers, communities, DECEMBER 2021 and ultimately forests across the U.S. and Canada. Thousands of people joined the standards revision process and this commitment to collaboration strengthens the positive impact of our standards in addressing sustainability challenges.
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BOXING DAY (CAN) NEW YEAR’S EVE SFI CERTIFICATE HOLDERS ArtSkills, Inc. BPG GRAPHIC SOLUTIONS Clearwater Paper Corporation - Delta Graphics dba Mi5 Print & Digital Lewiston Ashton Lewis Lumber Company, DESIGNERS PRESS INC. Communications Inc. Clemson Experimental Forest DG3 North America, Inc. BPM, Inc. Aspen Press and Packaging, LLC Clifford Paper, Inc. dba Media DIAMOND ENVELOPE Broadridge Customer Solutions, Clifford Aspen Products Inc CORPORATION Communications West LLC Coastal Container Corporation Associated Hardwoods Direction Furniture Company Inc. BSC Acquisition Sub, LLC, dba Colbert Packaging Corporation 3A Press AT Limited Partnership Double Envelope DISC Graphics, Inc. Collum’s Lumber Products, LLC 3C Packaging Atco Wood Products Ltd. BUILDING PRODUCTS PLUS LLC District Creative Printing Inc. Colonial Press International, Inc. 3M Company Atlantic Corporation of Burd and Fletcher Dixon Direct Wilmington, Inc. Color Graphics (A Cenveo Burton & Mayer Inc. Dixon Ticonderoga Art ULC Worldwide Limited Company Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. Dixon Ticonderoga Company Colortree Group, Inc. Atlantic Press Inc Dobi & Associates, Inc. Columbia Corrugated Box Atlas Pallets a Division of WMC Documation LLC Columbia International Forest Autajon Packaging Boston Products, Inc. Dominion Holdings, Inc. DBA AV Group NB Inc. - AV Nackawic Source 4 Command Digital AV Terrace Bay Domtar Inc., Dryden A&A Trading Ltd. Command Missouri Domtar Inc., Espanola A.W. Hastings & Co LLC C&C Wood Products Ltd. Commencement Bay Corrugated Domtar Inc., Usine de Windsor Abitibi River Forest Management C&D Lumber Co. COMMERCIAL LUMBER AND Inc. PALLET COMPANY INC Domtar Paper Company, LLC C.W. Zumbiel Company, The ABS Graphics Commonwealth of Virginia, Donnelley Financial Solutions Cadmus Journal Services (A Department of Forestry Absolute Printing D.B.A. Fuse Cenveo Worldwide Limited Double H Plastics, Inc. Communication Globale Pub Cité Graphics Company) Drax Biomass Inc. Compass Packaging LLC Academy Graphic Cal-Tex Lumber Company, Inc. DreamWorks Graphic Communication, Inc. Conifex Timber Inc. Communications, LLC Barrette-Chapais Ltée Cambridge Packaging ACCO Brands USA LLC & ACCO Incorporated Connemara Converting Dryden Forest Management Co. Brands Canada LP Batavia Container Inc/American Ltd. Boxboard LLC Campbell Global, LLC - East Conservation Forestry, LLC Accurate Box Co., Inc Coast and Southeast DS Graphics Inc. Bay Cities Container Corporation Conservation Resource Partners, Adams Lithographing Campbell Global, LLC - LLC DS Smith dba Newport Timber BBC Land LLC Northwest Region LLC Advance Packaging Corporation Container Service Corp BC Timber Sales Campbell Global, LLC - DS Smith dba St. George Advance Paper Box Company / Continental Accessory Corp. Packaging Spectrum BCI All-Size Division Southwest Region Timberland Holdings, Inc Ahlstrom-Munksjö NA Specialty BCI Buckeye Division (Div of BCI Canadian Forest Products Ltd. Conver Pack, Inc. Ducks Unlimited Canada Solutions LLC (CANFOR) Buckeye Corrrugated) Convertible Solutions LLC Dunkley Lumber Ltd. Ahlstrom-Munksjö NonWovens Canadian Forest Products Ltd. BCI Hawkeye Division - Hawkeye Copap Inc. DBA Copap Trading Dunn Paper - Natural Dam, Inc. LLC dba WynnWood Corrugated Box Inc. Durabox de Chihuahua S.A. de AJ Schrafel Paper Corporation Canadian Wood Products - Bell Container Corp. Copy General Corporation C.V. Montréal Inc. dba CWP Arc AJM Packaging Corporation Bell Incorporated Corner Brook Pulp And Paper Dura-Fibre, LLC Canfor Southern Pine, Inc. AKI Inc. dba Arcade Marketing, Limited Bellwyck Packaging Inc/Bellwyck Durgin and Crowell Lumber Co., Inc. Canyon Lumber Co., Inc. Packaging Solution CorrChoice Inc. Alamco Wood Products LLC Capacity Forest Management Ltd. Belmark, Inc. Corrugated Container Duro Hilex Poly, LLC, a subsidiary All Color Business Specialties Beloit Box Board Company, Inc. Capital Corrugated & Carton Corporation dba DS Smith of Novolex Hold LTD LLC. dba Sierra Sheets Packaging Benchemark Printing, Inc. All Packaging Company Capital Printing Corrugated Supplies, LLC BENGAL PAPER & CONVERTING Eacom Timber Corporation Allen-Bailey Tag & Label, Inc. CARAUSTAR CUSTOM Cottonport Hardwoods, LLC. Bennett Lumber Products, Inc. PACKAGING Alliance Packaging LLC/SP CRABAR / GBF INC. A Bersaco, Inc. Holdings Caraustar Industries Inc. SUBSIDIARY OF ENNIS, INC. DBA Best Deal Graphics and Printing Alsip Minimill LLC Carolina Container Company CRAFT Artisan Wood Floors Best Press Inc. AM Lithography Carrier Forest Products Ltd. Creative Press L.L.C. Bethune Nonwovens, Inc. dba Ambrose International Carrier Lumber Ltd. Crusader Paper Company, Inc. Suominen Amcor Specialty Cartons (ASC) Cartamundi East Longmeadow CTP Cartons and Labels - A Bind-Rite Robbinsville, LLC dba LLC division of CTP Limited American Eagle Paper Mills Command Robbinsville (Team Ten LLC) CartonCraft, Inc. Cultech, Inc. A Subsidiary of Eagle Veneer, Inc. Bind-Rite Services, Inc. Autajon Group American Forest Management Case Paper Company Inc Edelmann USA, Inc. Blandin Paper Company dba UPM (AFM) – PNW Group Cumberland Container Blandin Catalyst Paper Corporation Ekman & Co Inc. Corporation American Greetings Blue Ridge Printing Catchmark Timber Trust, Inc. El Dorado Packaging, Inc. Curtis Packaging Corporation American Litho, Inc. Blue Water Lumber, LLC Cedar Creek, LLC ElandersUSA, LLC Custom Packaging, LP Americraft Carton, Inc. BOCA Systems Central Michigan Paper Company Elk Grove Graphics Cutting Edge Paper Limited AMIDON GRAPHICS Boisaco Inc. Central National Gottesman, Inc. Elopak Canada Inc. ANC Timber Ltd. Boise Cascade Cenveo Publisher Services dba Emballages Netpak Inc. Anchor Paper Company Cenveo Worldwide Limited Boise Cascade Company Endura Products, Inc. API Foils Cenveo Worldwide Limited Boise White Paper, LLC Envelope 1, Inc. Arandell Corporation Champion Container Corporation BOISERIES SAVCO INC. Envision Graphics, LLC dba ARBEC, BOIS D’OEUVRE INC. CJK Group Inc Envision3 Boscus Canada Inc. Ariva, a division of Domtar Inc. Clampitt Paper Company Enviva, LP Boutwell, Owens & Co. Inc. Arizona Public Service (APS) Clark Graphics Essentra Packaging U.S. INC Box-Board Products Inc. Company Clark’s Hardwood Lumber Co., Evergreen Packaging, Inc. BOXES R US, INC. dba ULTIMATE Arkansas Box, LLC L.P. PAPERBOX CO DanHil Containers II, LTD. Arkansas Forestry Commission Classic Color, Inc. Boy Scouts of America - Philmont DART CONTAINER CORPORATION Arkay Packaging Scout Ranch Classic Envelope Inc Data Reproductions Arma Container Corporation Boy Scouts of America -The CLAW Forestry Services, LLC Dee Packaging Solutions Arrow Box Company Summit Bechtel Reserve Clearwater Paper Corporation Delta Corrugated Paper Products SFI CERTIFICATE HOLDERS GRAPH-PAK CORPORATION Idaho Timber, LLC Katahdin Forest Management Manufactura de Empaque LLC Peninsular, S. de R.L. de C Great Little Box Company Ideal Box LLC Katerra Inc Marwood Ltd. Greatview Aseptic Packaging Image Four Inc. (Shandong)Co., Ltd. Kaweah Container Maryland DNR Forest Service Impressions Incorporated Greatview Beijing Trading Co., Ltd Kempf Paper Corporation Masonite Corporation Imprimerie Solisco Inc. Greatview Holdings Limited Kenauk Canada ULC Master Packaging Inc. Independent II, LLC Green Bay Packaging Inc. KEY CONTAINER CORPORATION Master Print F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Independent Paperboard Company Green Diamond Resource Marketing, LLC King Forest Industries, Inc. MCADAMS GRAPHICS INC. Company Fallen Timber LLC Indiana Department of Natural King Paper Limited Corp McDermid Paper Converters Ltd. GREENER PLANET, LLC Resources FCL Graphics Kingery Printing McKinley Paper Company Inc. GreenWood Resources, Inc. INDUSTRIES JOHN LEWIS LTD Fellowes, Inc. Kirkwood Printing Company MCLEAN PACKAGING CORP Greif Packaging, LLC Intercarton, S. de R.L. de C.V. Ferguson Box K’omoks First Nation (KFN) McNairn Packaging, Inc. Groupe Forestra Coopérative Interfor Corporation Forestry LP Fibercorr Mills, LLC McShan Lumber Company, Inc. Forestière International ESP, Inc. Kruger Inc. Fibre Source International Corp/ Meadowlands Display and Groupe Savoie Inc Fibre Source NA Co International Forest Products Kruger Products L.P Packing, Inc. H.J. Crabbe & Sons Ltd. LLC FIBRO SOURCE USA, INC. Kubin-Nicholson Corporation Menasha Packaging Company, International Paper Company LLC Field Paper Company KyKenKee, Inc. International Paper North Mensch Mill & Lumber Corp Financial Graphic Service, Inc. Lake Book Manufacturing American Container Mercer Peace River Pulp Ltd. Finch Paper LLC Lake Printing Co Inc dba Lake Interprint Web Printing First Quality Enterprises, Inc. Meredith Webb Printing Interstate Container Cambridge Five Star Sheets LLC Meyers Printing Company Interstate Container Columbia Fleetwood Fibre Packaging & Miami-Dade County, GSA Graphics Interstate Container Reading LLC Materials Management Hallmark Cards, Inc.; Dayspring Florida Forest Service Cards Inc Interstate Paper, LLC dba DS Michigan Department of Natural Smith Riceboro Mill Resources Flower City Printing Inc./Carta Hampden Papers USA Irving Consumer Products Ltd. Michigan-California Timber Hampton Resources, Inc. Company LP FoldedPak, Inc. Island Timberlands Limited Hancock Forest Management Partnership Midland Paper, Packaging + Foley Cellulose LLC Variable Solutions Supplies Hankins, Inc. ITW Laminations, a division of Foremost Graphics LLC Landvest, Inc. Harris Packaging Corporation ITW Canada Inc. Midwest Converting Inc. Forest City Trading Group, LLC Langston Companies Inc. Harrison Industries d.b.a. J.D. Irving Limited Midwest Paper Group Forest Investment Associates Structural Wood Systems J.J. Collins & Sons, Inc. LaSalle Lumber Company LLC Miitigoog Limited Partnership Fornebu Lumber Company Inc., Hazen Paper Company Lawrence Paper Company Millar Western Forest Products Woodlands Division Ltd. Heinrich Envelope Corporation Lee Industries, Inc. Forney Coated Products, A Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. Herzog Veneers Lefavor Envelope Company Division of Smurfit Kapp Minnesota Counties Sustainable Hexacomb, a Packaging LeNoble Lumber Co., Inc. Forum Communications Printing Forest Co-operative Corporation of America Brand Les Papiers Atlas Inc. / Eden Franklin Lumber LLC Minnesota Department of Highland Pellets LLC Industries Inc. Natural Resources Freedom Holdings, LLC, dba HighRoad Press LLC Lewis Paper International Freedom Graphics System Jackson Paper Manufacturing Missouri Department of Hilton Timberlands, LLC Lewisburg Printing Company Conservation French Paper Company Company Hinton Lumber Products, Inc dba Lexington Manufacturing, Inc. Mittera New Jersey, LLC dba Fruit Growers Supply Company Jacob Holm Industries Cottondale Wood Products Liberty Paper Earth Thebault Jasper Lumber Company & HM Woodworking Southern Wood Chips Lithographix, Inc. MJB Wood Group, LLC Hoff Enterprises Inc. Jay Packaging Group, Inc. Little Rapids Corporation Modern Litho Hoffmaster Group, Inc.® JBM Packaging Company Lollicup MOD-PAC CORP Holmberg Co. Inc. JELD-WEN Windows and Doors Lone Rock Timber Management Mondi Bags USA, LLC Homan Industries Company Jen-Coat, Inc. dba ProAmpac Monson Paper, LLC Hood Container Corporation Lone Star Corrugated Container JH Huscroft Montreal Lake Business Ventures Corp. Hood Container of Louisiana, LLC Ltd. JLMC International LLC Gateway Packaging Company Louisiana Department of Wildlife Hood Industries, Inc. Montrose Forest Products LLC Gateway Press, Inc. Joe Piper Inc. and Fisheries Hood Packaging Corporation Motivating Graphics Inc. General Converting, Inc. John Roberts Company, The Louisiana Pacific Corporation Hopkins Lumber Contractors, MS Packaging and Supply Johns Manville Love Envelopes, Inc. Georgia Biomass LLC Inc. Corporation Johnson Anderson and Loyola Paper Company Georgia-Pacific LLC Horizon Paper Co., Inc. Multi Packaging Solutions Inc. Associates Inc. LSC Communications Gestion Forestire du Saint- HPE, Inc. Multi-Color Corporation Jones Packaging Inc. Maurice Inc. LV Timber Co., LLC Hub Folding Box Co., Inc. Murphy Company Jostens Giustina Land & Timber Co. M.P.I. Moulin a papier de Portneuf Huber Engineered Woods, LLC Mystic Ltd. DBA Sheets Jostens Inc. Glatfelter Advanced Material Mac Papers, Inc. Unlimited, LLC Huhtamaki, Inc. North America Justman Packaging and Display Husby Forest Products Ltd. Globus Printing and Packaging K & D Graphics, Printing and GLS Companies Huston Patterson Corporation/ Packaging Sigma Graphics Goetz Printing Company, The Hylton Paper Company, Inc. GoldenCorr Sheets, LLC Gondi S. de R.L. de C.V. Good Hope, Inc. Goodfellow Inc. MACKAY MITCHELL ENVELOPE Gorham Paper and Tissue, LLC Maine Bureau Parks and Lands Gould Paper Corp. Dba JP Gould Malnove Holding Company Corp. K-1 Packaging Group GP Cellulose GmbH Purchasing Kaisa USA Inc. GP Corrugated LLC Manchester Industries Idaho Forest Group Kanzaki Specialty Papers, Inc. Graphic Packaging International Mansir Printing LLC SFI CERTIFICATE HOLDERS Produits Forestiers Lamco Inc. Sabert Corporation St. Charles Community LLC Produlith Inc. Saint Louis Print Group St. Croix Tissue Inc. Professional Image Inc. San Diego Printers St. Joseph Communications Prographics Communications Sandusky Packaging Corporation St. Louis County Land Dept. LLC Sandy Alexander, Inc. Standard Press Inc. Progress Container & Display Standard Printing Company Progress Luv2Pak International P.A. Hutchison Company StanPac, Inc. Nahan Printing, Inc. Ltd. Pacific Paper Trading Co. States Industries Napco, Inc. Progress Printing Company Pacific Pulp and Paper, Inc. Steen Macek Paper Co, Inc. National Graphic Solutions Progressive Converting Inc. (Pro- Pacific Southwest Container, LLC Con) Stewart Sutherland ND Fairmont, LLC Pacific Western Container Prolam - Société en commandite Stimson Lumber Company ND Paper Inc Prolam Pacific Woodtech Corporation StrataGraph, LLC Neiman Enterprises, Inc. SAPPI North America Prystup Packaging Products Packaging Corporation of America Structural Roof Systems, Inc. Nekoosa Coated Products SAS Institute, Inc. PSI CONTAINER, INC Packaging Logic, Inc. Structurlam Mass Timber New England Wooden Ware dba Scotch Plywood Co., Inc. Publication Printers Corp. Corporation NEWW Packaging and Dis PACKAGING SVCS OF MARYLAND, Scout Sourcing Inc. INC./PSI PACKAGING Publix Super Markets Inc., studio503, LLC New York State Dept of Printing Services Sealed Air Corporation Environmental Conservation Packrite, LLC Stuwix Resources Joint Venture Pyramid Mountain Lumber Inc. Sealed Air Corporation - Korrvu NewCorr Packaging Pactiv, LLC Product Group Suncraft Technologies Inc. Quad/Graphics, Inc. New-Indy Catawba, LLC Paige Packaging, Inc. Seaman Paper Company of MA., Sundance Graphics LLC dba Rainy Lake Tribal Resource SunDance Marketing Solutions New-Indy Containerboard Panoramic Press, Inc. Inc. Management Inc. (Hartford City Mill) Superior Lithographics Paper Products Marketing (USA) SEDA ITALY S.p.A. New-Indy Ivex Specialty Paper, Inc. Seda North America SupplyOne Inc. LLC Paperworks Packaging Group Senior Paper Corporation Supremex Inc. dba Premier NEW-INDY ONTARIO LLC (Paperworks Industries, Inc.) Envelope and Buffalo Env Serenity Packaging Corporation NEW-INDY OXNARD LLC Paradigm Printing Inc. Sustainable Corrugated, LLC SG360° Nicholas Earth Printing, LLC Paris Corporation of New Jersey Sutherland Packaging, Inc. Shadybrook Lumber Products, Nipissing Forest Resource Parton Lumber Company Inc. Symcor Inc. Management Inc. PAYLOAD GROUP, LLC Shafii’s Inc. dba Tiger Press Taylor Communications, Inc. Norbord Inc. (Standard Register) Peczuh Printing, Inc. Rapid Displays, Inc. Sheets, LLC Norcom, Inc. Tennessee Division of Forestry Peel District School Board Rayonier Shillington Box Company, LLC Norkol, Inc. Printing Services Department Tension Envelope Corporation North Cascades Forest Products Pennsylvania DCNR, Bureau of Shuqualak Lumber Company Inc. Texmark Timber Treasury, L.P. LLC Forestry Sierra Pacific Industries Textile Printing Company North Pacific Paper Company Perez Trading Company Inc. Sigler Companies LLC (dba NORPAC) Performance Office Papers Silvicraft, Inc Northern Pulp Nova Scotia PhilCorr, LLC Corporation Simon Miller Sales Co. dba Simon Philipp Lithographing Company Miller Paper & Packaging Nosco Inc. Phoenix Color Corp. Sinclar Group Forest Products Ltd. Nova Scotia Department of RB Converting Natural Resources Phoenix/Packaging, Inc. Skeena Sawmills Ltd. Rebec Inc. Novolex PHOENIX-VETERANS PRINT SmartLam, LLC ReEnergy Holdings Inc. NPC Inc. PICOLO VÉLO S.E.N.C. SMC Packaging Group Regional Affiliate Certificate TFP Data Systems NRI Pingree Associates Group Inc. Smead The CJ Krehbiel Company (CJK Pioneer Packaging, Inc. Reindl Printing, Inc. Smurfit Kappa Bates, LLC Print Possibilities) Pixelle Specialty Solutions LLC Resolute Forest Products Inc. Smurfit Kappa North America LLC The Conservation Fund Ponderay Newsprint Company Resolute Forest Products Inc. Smurfit Kappa North America, LLC - Texas The Flesh Company Port Blakely Tree Farms LP (Fibrek Recycling) Snyder Packaging Inc The Forestland Group Port Hawkesbury Paper Limited Resolute FP US Inc. The Gorman Group of Companies Partnership Resolute US Inc. SOCIÉTÉ EN COMMANDITE STADACONA WB The Lyme Timber Company LP Port Townsend Paper Corporation Resource Management Service Softex Paper, Inc. The Millcraft Paper Company POSTYCARDS Revelstoke Community Forest SOLIFOR PERTHUIS, SOCIÉTÉ EN Ohio Department of Natural PotlatchDeltic Forest Holdings Corp. The Molpus Woodlands Group, Resources COMMANDITE LLC Prairie State Packaging, Inc. REYNOLDS PAPER COMPANY Old York Road Printing Company LIMITED Solo Printing, Inc. The Paige Company Containers, Pratt Corrugated Holdings, Inc. Inc. Olympic Resource Management RFP Atlas Sales LLC (DBA Sonoco Products Company Pratt Industries, Inc. Resolute Tissue) The Printing House Ltd. Ondaadiziwin Forest South Carolina Forestry Precision Materials, LLC Management RJ Acquisitions DBA The Ad Art Commission The QMC Group, Inc. Prentiss & Carlisle Management Company ONETOUCHPOINT MIDWEST South Coast Paper, LLC The Robinette Company Company, Inc. CORP dba ONETOUCHPOINT-CCI Roaring Spring Paper Products Southeastern Timber Products, The Sauers Group, Inc. President Container Group LLC LLC Original Impressions Rockline Industries The Westervelt Company Pressed Paperboard Orora Packaging Solutions / ROEBUCK PRINTING Southern Champion Tray LP Technologies LLC The YGS Group Corru - Kraft INC&H.G.Roebuck&Sons Southern States Packaging Principal Life Insurance Company Company Thoro Packaging dba Orora Packaging Solutions/ Rohrer Corporation FoldedColor Manufactured Packaging Print NW Southern Veneer Products ROMANOW CONTAINER Three Z Printing Co. Orora Visual LLC Printing Concepts, Inc. Southland Envelope Ronpak, Inc. Thunderbolt Biomass, Inc. OX Paperboard Illinois, LLC Printxcel Spearfish Pellet Company, LLC Roosevelt Paper Company Timber Systems, LLC Priority Envelope Specialty Kraft Converters, LLC Roseburg Resources Company Timberland Investment PROACTIVE PACKAGING & Royal Business Forms & Printing Specialty Print Communications Resources LLC DISPLAY Inc. Spire TimberWest Forest Corporation ProAmpac, Inc., Suffolk Royal Consumer Products a Spray Lake Sawmills Ltd. Times Printing Co., Inc. PRODUITS FORESTIERS ARBEC division of Mafcote, Inc Spruce Products Limited INC. Timiskaming Forest Alliance, Inc. RR Donnelley & Sons, Inc. SFI CERTIFICATE HOLDERS
Tolko Industries Ltd. Willamette Falls Paper Company, Inc Toney Lumber Company, Inc. Windsor Locks Nonwovens, Inc. Torlys Inc. Winston Packaging, A Winston Transcontinental Inc. Printing Company TREE HOUSE PAD & PAPER, INC. Wisconsin Department of Natural Trend Offset Printing Services Resources WD CHIPS LLC TRG Threshold Timber Corp. - Unifoil Corporation Veritiv, Inc. dba Bulkley Dunton Wisconsin’s County Forest Michigan Weaber, Inc. Program Unimac Graphics Veritiv, Inc. dba Graphic TRG Threshold Timber Communications Webbo Graphics dba Rooney Woodland Paper, Inc. Corporation Union Packaging, LLC Printing Verso Corporation Woodland Pulp LLC Trinchera Property Managment, United Corrstack LLC Webcor Packaging Corporation Victor Envelope Co Woojin Timber Co., Ltd. LLC United Envelope LLC Weber Display & Packaging Viking Industries, Inc. Wright Business Graphics TriState Container/ ProCorr University Lithoprinters Wertheimer Box Corporation Display & Packaging Vineland Packaging Corporation Yakama Nation and Yakama UP Paper LLC West Fraser Mills Ltd. Forest Products Tri-State Envelope Corporation Virginia Department of Game and Upper Hudson Woodlands ATP, Inland Fisheries West Fraser, Inc. (US) Yaletown Lumber Industries Ltd. Trojan Lithograph Corporation LP Vista Color Corp. Western Forest Products Inc. York Container Company Tukaiz, LLC Useful Products, LLC Vivid Impact Co, LLC Western States Envelope & Label YURCHAK PRINTING Tumac Lumber Co. Inc. Utah Paperbox Company DBA Weston Forest Products Inc. Zenger Group Twin Rivers Paper Company Inc. UPB Volk Packaging Corporation Weston Wood Solutions Inc. ZUZA Marketing Asset U.S. Corrugated, Inc. V.G. Reed & Sons Inc. Wagner Forest Management, Ltd WestRock Company Management UBS Printing Group, Inc. Vanderwell Contractors (1971) Walsworth, Inc. Ltd. WestRock Packaging Solution Un1f1ed2 Global Packaging Group Warneke Paper Box Co Vanguard Companies Korea Co., Ltd. Washington Department of Unadilla Silo Company, Inc. dba Weyerhaeuser Company Unalam Varn Wood Products, LLC Natural Resources Wildwood Grilling Unicorr Packaging Group Veritiv Operating Company Wausau Container Corporation (Unisource , xpedx) Wilen Direct SFI FUNDING
SFI is primarily supported financially by fees from SFI funding is not tied to the certification decision. SFI-certified organizations who use the program’s SFI-certified organizations are audited by independent forest management and fiber sourcing standards. These certification bodies accredited by the American National SFI-certified organizations include private landowners, Standards Institute (ANSI), ANAB and/or the Standards forest product companies, managers of public lands, Council of Canada (SCC). SFI has no role in determining Indigenous communities and their businesses,, whether a certificate is granted—this decision is made conservation organizations, state and local public independently by the certification bodies. agencies, community interests, and universities.
In 2019, SFI-certified organizations provided 79% of the funding for SFI and the remaining 21% came from annual conference revenue, service agreements, investment income and other sources. The SFI External Review Panel is a distinguished group of independent experts representing U.S. and Canadian conservation, professional, academic and public organizations. The panel provides external input and operates independently from SFI.
The panel oversees the SFI standards review process and conducts an annual independent review of SFI to ensure the annual SFI progress report objectively and credibly states the status of SFI and its programming. 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205 The External Review Panel Members The SFI External Review Panel has reviewed the data used in this report and believes it to be objective, meaningful, and credible. One of SFI’s major strengths continues to be a commitment to Bill Hubbard, Ph.D. (Chair) Scott Phillips continuous improvement, which adds significantly to the benefits Assistant Director & Program Leader, State Forester, University of Maryland Extension, South Carolina Forestry Commission SFI provides each year. The strategic review undertaken by SFI staff College AGNR and Board of Directors in 2018-2019 demonstrates this commitment Mike Sullivan and has helped refocus SFI as new programs are incorporated. Alice Ewen (Vice-Chair) Director, St. Andrews Biological Station The new mission, “to advance sustainability through forest-focused Acting Assistant Director Cooperative Fisheries and Oceans Canada Forestry, collaborations” is timely and necessary. The addition of Project USDA Forest Service Learning Tree and the creation of Project Learning Tree Canada in 2017 and their emphasis on training the next generation of Gary Bull, Ph.D. environmental leaders will create a lasting impact. Head, Department of Natural Resources Management ERP Executive Secretary The SFI standard revision process is well under way and the ERP University of British Columbia Rick Cantrell reviewed all of the comments from the first public comment President, period. We found the treatment of these comments to be fair and Dr. Kate Edwards BlackBriar Environmental LLC Senior Advisor, Canadian Forest Service reasonable and appreciate the speed with which SFI staff responded of Natural Resources Canada to our questions. We look forward to the opportunity to engage as independent reviewers in the work that continues to be done to gather additional comments on ways to improve the SFI standards. The standard-revision webinars hosted by SFI were exemplary. The information presented was timely and participants had the opportunity to question changes and seek clarification. We encourage SFI to continue to be open and transparent with the review process and provide opportunities for all stakeholders to engage.
Bill Hubbard Chair of the SFI External Review Panel and Assistant Director & Program Leader, University of Maryland Extension, College AGNR PLT
The PLT Education Operating Committee is a committee of the SFI Board. It is responsible for providing leadership, direction and strategy development for PLT. This diverse committee works with educators, resource management professionals, youth leaders, citizen conservationists and others.
PLT works to further understanding about natural resource management and complex environmental issues among youth and their families. 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205 The PLT Education Operating Committee
ASHLEY HOFFMAN (CO-CHAIR) HEIDI MCALLISTER (CO-CHAIR) JANET ADY JOE HEIMLICH, Ph.D. Executive Director Assistant Director Chief of the Education, Co-Director Kentucky Association of Conservation Education, Interpretation, and Partnershipst COSI Center for Research & Environmental Education US Forest Service Evaluation MARY FORD DANIEL BENAVIDEZ DENISE BUCK Director of Professional Learning MICHELLE SAULNIER Superintendent Program Director National Geographic Society Program Director Zuni Public School District Pacific Education Institute Arbor Day Foundation KAREN OSTLUND BETH MARCHAND ERICKA MARKMAN PH.D. Lecturer LAURA SIX, Ph.D. Director of Marketing Consultant University of Texas at Austin Plant Ecologist Bearmark Digital Turo Park Partners LLC Weyerhaeuser Company RAHUL SINGH ELLEN SHULTZABARGER ROBERT RAZE, Ph.D. CEO & Founder State Forester Professor, College of Education Anant Corporation Department of Conservation and St. Petersburg College Natural Resources, Bureau of WANDA BARRS Forestry JULIA WASHBURN ATFS Certified Tree Farmer Superintendent Associate, Knapp-Barrs & ASHLEY SMITH (SIC REP) Rock Creek National Park Associates Director of Education Programs Alabama Forestry Association SFI® Inc. is governed by an independent and diverse I’m excited about delivering on SFI’s mission to advance sustainability through forest- 18-member Board, which sets SFI’s strategic focused collaborations. SFI has evolved into an organization that offers sustainability direction and is responsible for overseeing and solutions and shows leadership on critical global issues like climate change, biodiversity improving the internationally recognized SFI loss, and education to support future environmental leaders. organization and SFI standards. The Board’s three chambers represent environmental, social, and The next year promises to be full of milestones as we launch the SFI 2022 Standards economic sectors equally. and Rules. The revision process draws on the diverse SFI network and serves as an excellent example of SFI’s commitment to collaborative approaches. The revision SFI Board members include executive-level process also serves to highlight how the standards and the SFI network are committed to representatives from conservation organizations, addressing critical issues such as climate change. Objective 9: Climate-Smart Forestry academic institutions, Indigenous organizations, is an important example of our commitment to ensuring forest management activities family forests, government, labor, and the forest address climate change adaptation and mitigation. The inclusion of that objective and products industry. This diversity reflects the variety the entire revision process helps to ensure that the SFI standard sets a clear measure of of interests in the forestry community. excellence.
In these challenging times, SFI showed resilience and creativity as face-to-face meetings went online and our Project Learning Tree offerings focused on helping parents engage their children while schools were closed. Most importantly, the organization remains strong and fully committed to delivering on its goals.
Guy Gleysteen Chair of the SFI Board of Directors, Chairman, GreenBlue 2020 SFI PROGRESS REPORT SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205 SFI Board Members
ECONOMIC SECTOR ENVIRONMENTAL SECTOR SOCIAL SECTOR Board members representing the economic Board members representing the Board members representing the social sector, which includes the forest, paper and environmental sector, which includes sector, which includes community or social wood products industry, or other for-profit non-profit environmental or interest groups, universities, labor, family forest ownership or management entities: conservation organizations: forest owners, or government agencies:
Guy Gleysteen (SFI Chair) Karla Guyn, Ph.D. (SFI Vice-Chair) Ebonie Alexander Chairman, CEO, Executive Director, GreenBlue Ducks Unlimited Canada Black Family Land Trust, Inc.
Michael P. Doss Dawn Carr Jeff Bromley President and CEO, Executive Director, Council Chair, Graphic Packaging Holding Company Canadian Parks Council United Steelworkers Wood Council
Kevin Edgson (Secretary-Treasurer) Jad Daley Ashley Hoffman President and CEO, President and CEO, Executive Director, EACOM Timber Corporation American Forests Kentucky Association For Environmental Education Jim Irving Dan Lambe Co-CEO, President, Lennard Joe J.D. Irving, Limited Arbor Day Foundation President, Scw’exmx Tribal Council Brent Keefer Mike Parr Chief Executive Officer, President, Patricia Layton American Forest Management, Inc. American Bird Conservancy Director - Wood Utilization + Design Institute, Jaime Yraguen Gail Wallin Clemson University President, Chair, Associated Oregon Loggers Canadian Council on Invasive Bettina Ring Species Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, State of Virginia As of June 2020 Follow us on SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE 2YEARS SFI-00001 1995-20205
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