Joint Forest Management and Chain-of-Custody Certification Evaluation Report for the: State Forest Lands Managed by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Conducted under the Auspices of the SCS Forest Conservation Program SCS is an FSC Accredited Certification Body CERTIFICATION REGISTRATION NUMBER SCS-FM/COC-090N Submitted to: Michigan Department of Natural Resources Mason Building, 4th Floor Lansing, Michigan Lead Author: Robert J. Hrubes, Ph.D. Date of Field Audit: September 18-30, 2005 Date of Report: December 6, 2005 Date of Certification: December 31, 2005 By: SCIENTIFIC CERTIFICATION SYSTEMS 2000 Powell St. Suite Number 1350 Emeryville, CA 94608, USA www.scscertified.com SCS Contact: Dave Wager
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[email protected] Organization of the Report This report of the results of our evaluation is divided into two sections. Section A provides the public summary and background information that is required by the Forest Stewardship Council. This section is made available to the general public and is intended to provide an overview of the evaluation process, the management programs and policies applied to the forest, and the results of the evaluation. Section A will be posted on the SCS website (www.scscertified.com) no less than 30 days after issuance of the certificate. Section B contains more detailed results and is conveyed only to the certification applicant which in this case is the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. As the certification applicant in this case is a public agency, the full evaluation report may be publicly available but only through the MDNR. 2 FOREWORD Scientific Certification Systems, a certification body accredited by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), was retained by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources1 to conduct a certification evaluation of its management of the Michigan state forest system, an estate of approximately 3.9 million acres located through the upper Lower Peninsula and through the Upper Peninsula.