Sustainable Forestry Initiative® Program
The Sustainable Forestry InitiativeŽ program (SFI)
is an independent forestry certification system that
encompasses the principles of sound forest stewardship for
North America. The SFI program standards are based on
nine principles:
- Sustainable Forestry
- Responsible Practices
- Reforestation and Productive Capacity
- Forest Health and Productivity
- Long-term Forest and Soil Productivity
- Protection of Water Resources
- Protection of Special Sites and Biological Diversity
- Legal Compliance
- Continual Improvement
From these nine principles, objectives and performance
measures are identified and indicators of performance are
defined. Organizations that choose to participate in
this voluntary program subject their practices to annual
third-party audits of compliance to the SFI standards.
Port Blakely has been a third-party certified participant
of the SFI program since 2002. Our last audit was in
May 2009 and was conducted by Bureau Veritas. Audit
results are available by clicking the link below.
2009 SFI Audit Results
For more information on the SFI program, visit their website at
www.sfiprogram.org.
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