SFI Program Licensing
In 1998, the SFI program was opened to companies, landowners, and organizations outside of AF&PA® membership. AF&PA leadership initiated this move, recognizing that a partnership with diverse stakeholders will foster new and innovative means of accomplishing continuous improvement of forestry practices. The Conservation Fund, a nationally respected conservation organization, became the first nonprofit organization in the U.S. to become an SFI program licensee. The Conservation Fund enrolled three demonstration forests comprising 20,000 acres of working woodlands. St. Louis County, with 900,000 acres in Northern Minnesota, was the first public land agency to enroll in this award-winning program.
Here's How the SFI Program Will Help Your Organization
With increased scrutiny on environmental practices of the business community, and with the attentiveness to environmental issues in the marketplace, many are looking at the benefits of the SFI program. Whether it's by joining AF&PA or becoming a licensee of the SFI program, organizations from across the country are reaping the benefits of the SFI program. In today's environmentally sensitive world, many organizations are finding that the SFI program helps them to "do good" by expanding the practice of sustainable forestry and "do well" by meeting their customer and their organization's demands.
SFI Program Benefits
Participation in the SFI program means affiliation with an internationally recognized environmental program. Organizations whose customers are attentive to environmental issues can reap the benefits of participation through:
- Use of the SFI program logo on organization's materials.
- Greater access to professional foresters throughout the U.S.
- Increased involvement in community forestry activities including outreach and training.
- Opportunity to participate in the SFI Certification Process and on-product labeling program.
- Additionally:
- Those involved in the program demonstrate leadership by working to broaden the practice of sustainable forestry.
- Those that participate demonstrate they are part of the solution to the conservation of America's forestlands and the wildlife and biological diversity dependent on these lands.
- The praise, awards and recognition earned by the program have benefits that accrue to those who participate in the program.
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