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Forest Certification Report Scientific Certification Systems Final FSC Certification Report EOEA Updated 5-4-04 Certification Evaluation Report for the Natural Forests Managed by The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affair Conducted under auspices of the SCS Forest Conservation Program As Accredited by the Forest Stewardship Council A NATURAL FOREST MANAGEMENT OPERATION CERTIFICATION REGISTRATION NUMBER SCS-FM/COC-00047N Prepared By SCIENTIFIC CERTIFICATION SYSTEMS 2000 Powell Street, Suite 1350 Emeryville, CA 94608, USA SCS Contact: Dave Wager Date of Field Audit: August 19-30, 2002 Report Authored by: Date of Initial Report: December, 2002 Bob Seymour, David Capen, Jim Furnish, Date of Final Report: May 2004 Dave Wager 1 Scientific Certification Systems Final FSC Certification Report for EOEA 5/4/04 Table of Contents 1.0 SUMMARY................................................................................................................. 4 1.1 Notable Strengths and Weaknesses ........................................................................ 5 1.2 Scoring of SCS Criteria and FSC Principles......................................................... 19 1.3 Certification recommendation and Justification ................................................... 20 1.4 Proposed Conditions To Be Attached To Award Of Certification....................... 20 1.5 Recommendations................................................................................................. 24 1.6 Chain Of Custody .................................................................................................. 24 2.0 ADMINISTRATIVE CONTEXT......................................................................... 25 2.1 Summary of Legislative, Administrative and Land Use Context......................... 25 3.0 Description FOREST MANAGEMENT ENTERPRISE ..................................... 26 3.1 Description of State Forestlands ........................................................................... 26 3.2 Summary of the Defined Forest Area that was Assessed ..................................... 26 3.2.1 Total management areas and its main divisions ....................................... 26 3.2.2 Forest Composition................................................................................... 27 3.2.3 Socioeconomic Context ............................................................................ 27 3.3 Summary of the forest management system......................................................... 27 3.3.1 Management Objectives............................................................................ 27 3.3.2 Silvicultural and/or Other Management Systems ..................................... 28 4.1 Summary Of Other Activities Being Undertaken................................................. 28 4.2 Evaluation of the impact, or potential impact, of such activities.......................... 29 5.0 BACKGROUND TO THE EVALUATION ........................................................ 29 5.1 Evaluation Team ................................................................................................... 29 5.2 Summary of Previous Certification Evaluations................................................... 31 6.0 STANDARDS....................................................................................................... 31 6.1 Forest Stewardship Standard Used ........................................................................ 31 6.2 Comments of Stakeholders On The Draft Interim Standard.................................. 32 6.3 Copy Of The Standard ........................................................................................... 33 7.0 SITES EVALUATED........................................................................................... 33 7.1 Itinerary of Field Evaluation................................................................................. 33 7.2 Justification for selection of items and places inspected ...................................... 40 8.0 STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION.................................................................. 40 8.1 Identification of stakeholders influenced by the enterprise.................................. 41 8.2 Summary of legal and customary use-rights......................................................... 41 8.4 Information Obtained and Conclusions Drawn .................................................... 41 9.0 FINDINGS................................................................................................................ 46 A.1 Timber Harvest Regulation............................................................................... 46 A.2. Stocking and Growth Control. ......................................................................... 57 A.3. Pest and Pathogen Management Strategy. ....................................................... 61 A.4. Forest Access. .................................................................................................. 64 A.5. Harvest Efficiency and Product Utilization ..................................................... 66 A.6. Management Plan and Information Base......................................................... 68 A.7. Importance Weighted Aggregate Score For Program Element A.................... 74 B1. Forest Community Structure and Composition.................................................. 76 2 Scientific Certification Systems Final FSC Certification Report for EOEA 5/4/04 B2. Long-Term Ecological Productivity................................................................... 81 B3. Wildlife Management Actions, Strategies, and Programs ................................. 84 B4. Watercourse Management Policies and Programs............................................. 88 B5. Pesticide Use: Practices and Policies ................................................................. 91 B6. Ecosystem Reserve Policies............................................................................... 92 B7. Importance Weighted Aggregate Score for Program Element B....................... 96 C.1 Financial Stability .............................................................................................. 98 C.2 Community and Public Involvement................................................................ 104 C.3 Public Use Management................................................................................... 109 C.4 Investment of Capital and Personnel................................................................ 113 C.5. Employee and Contractor Relations................................................................ 117 C.6. Compliance with Relevant Laws, Regulations, Treaties and Conventions..... 120 C.7. Importance Weighted Aggregate Score For Element C ................................. 122 10.0 APPENDICES .................................................................................................... 123 10.1 Chain-of-Custody............................................................................................... 123 10.2 Peer Review Comments & Responses from the SCS Team.............................. 126 10.3 Conditions Agreement ....................................................................................... 157 10.4 Description of Reorganization and Progress on Conditions…………………...157 3 Scientific Certification Systems Final FSC Certification Report for EOEA 5/4/04 INTRODUCTION- EOEA Reorganization Between the time of the initial report (December 2002) and the award of certification (May 2004), the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Departments that were the subject of this evaluation underwent reorganization. The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) were merged within the newly created Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). The former DEM Bureau of Forestry remains a bureau within the new DCR. The State Forests and Parks previously managed by the DEM Division of Forests and Parks are currently under the DCR Division of State Parks and Recreation. The former MDC Division of Watershed Management is now the major component of the DCR Division of Water Supply Protection. The Division of Fisheries and Wildlife was not reorganized, although the parent agency changed its name from The Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Environmental Law Enforcement to the Department of Fisheries and Game. The Division of Fisheries and Wildlife remains unchanged. The fundamental personnel assignments and management directives for the lands that were certified as "DEM", "MDC", and “DFW” remain substantially the same in May 2004 as they were during the SCS audit. Because this document was written prior to the reorganization, it reports the names of the departments (DEM, DFW, MDC) from the time of the original assessment. • “DEM” refers to the 285,000 acres of State forests and parks managed by the DCR- Division of State Parks and Recreation • “DFW” refers to the 110,000 acres managed by Department of Fisheries and Wildlife- Division of Fish and Game • “MDC” refers to the 104,000 acres managed by DCR- Division of Water Supply Protection. Additionally, this report communicates the findings as observed during the August 2002 evaluation. Since that time substantial progress has been made in addressing many of the areas of non-conformance. More detail on the progress of meeting the conditions and the reorganization can be found in Section 10.4 (pp 158-173). 1.0 SUMMARY Scientific Certification Systems, a certification body accredited by the Forest Stewardship
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