The program’s ultimate goal is ensure sustainability of forests while giving customers and consumers a visible stamp of assurance that they are purchasing products from companies committed to sustainable forestry.
• 107.8 million acres enrolled
• 34 SFI implementation committees, representing 37 states and two Canadian provinces
• $23 million local program funding,
to-date
• 10,402 loggers and foresters trained in 2001; 67,403 since 1995
• 832,885 landowner contacts
since 1995
• 94% of raw material delivered by trained loggers
Who Sponsors the SFI Program?
The SFISM program was launched in 1994 by the members of the American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA). Today, individual companies and landowners are responsible for program adoption and implementation with help from SFI Implementation Committees and staff specialists housed at AF&PA. An independent Sustainable Forestry Board, which includes balanced membership from the conservation community, the broader forestry community and SFI program participants, is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the SFI Standard and Verification Procedures.
Additional oversight of the SFI program is provided by the Independent External Review Panel (ERP). The Panel provides an independent review of the program while seeking steady improvements in sustainable forestry practices.
At the state level, SFI Implementation Committees play an important local role with a primary focus on quality logger education, landowneroutreach and responding to concernsabout practices that are inconsistent with the SFI Standard.
For more information about the national
program, log on to the national web sites
at www.aboutsfb.org,
www.aboutsfi.org
and www.abouterp.org
