FSC Controlled Wood: Time To Do No Harm

Among the “hot topics” under discussion this week at the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 2017 General Assembly is Controlled Wood.  This subject has been controversial from the moment the idea was introduced over 10 years ago.  Readers of the MixedWood blog know that...

FSC GA 2017 Day 1: Governance & Strategy

As we mentioned in our last post (just this morning), MixedWood is attending and participating in the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 2017 General Assembly, underway this week in the beautiful city of Vancouver, British Columbia.  Today was the opening session of the...

MixedWood at FSC GA 2017

Regular readers of this blog may have wondered where we have been for the last several months.  The answer, of course, is complicated.  But one good excuse has been a very busy season for FSC Controlled Wood consulting.  If you are among the folks still struggling...

More Risky Business for Controlled Wood

Today’s subject – once again – is the FSC Controlled Wood system. A major transition is underway in the community of FSC-certified companies. The long-awaited transition from FSC-STD-40-005 version 2-1 (in place and largely unchanged since 2007) to version 3-1 is...

FSC Chain of Custody – Version 3-0

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) published a long-awaited update to the important Chain of Custody standard earlier this winter. If you are a regular reader of this blog, and you have not yet looked at version 3-0 of the FSC Chain of Custody standard, we recommend...

A new Chain of Custody from FSC – almost

The long, long process of updating the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC’s) important Chain of Custody (CoC) standard may finally be nearing an end. We learned, along with others at the regional meeting last week in New York City, that the Board of Directors has...