Because Forests Matter

The MixedWood Blog has been quiet for several weeks.  This is not because things have been quiet and there has been nothing to write about. On the contrary, there’s been  lot going on:  The FSC General Assembly; The SFI Annual Conference; interesting and ongoing...

FSC and the Myth of the Gap

In my last post, I called attention to an important and interesting statement published late last week in the Newsroom section of the FSC-IC website.  It is entitled “Towards a stronger FSC Chain of Custody.”  In it,  they provide us with several important...

FSC: OCP retreat and a new CoC (?)

  FSC International released a statement yesterday in the Newsroom section of their website.  It is entitled “Towards a stronger FSC Chain of Custody system”.  It is fairly short, and includes several important details, so we reproduced it here in...

Fresh perspective on FSC CW from Weyerhaeuser

In my June 5 article discussing FSC Controlled Wood Risk Assessments, I used two contrasting examples to illustrate the wide disparity in how US companies approach the FSC Controlled Wood (CW) process.  A Risk Assessment (RA) posted by Weyerhaeuser was used to...