Forestry Certification
Up one level- · Groups Challenge Timber Companies Under SFI Rules
- Environmental Building News, February 2007; In separate actions in December 2006, two environmental groups asked the Sustainable Forestry Initiative®, Inc. (SFI) to take member companies to task for their ecologically damaging logging practices.
- · Green-stamping’ of Timber Companies Comes Under Scrutiny
- The NewStandard, January 12, 2007; Conservationists say a major certifier of environmentally “sustainable” foresting practices in the US offers its approval too easily and is too hesitant to take action against firms that harm the environment.
- · Groups oppose forest certification of Weyerhaeuser and Plum Creek
- Boston Globe, December 31, 2006; Conservation groups are moving beyond the courtroom into the marketplace to pressure two of the nation's largest timber companies to green up their acts on private forest lands, and challenge the timber industry's sustainable forestry standard.
- · Two Timber Firms Pretending To Be 'Green,' Groups Allege
- Washington Post, December 24, 2006; Environmentalists Want Companies' Lucrative Certification Revoked
