Draft For Review: FSC-US Nat’l Risk Assessment

by | Dec 16, 2017 | General

Everyone involved in the FSC Controlled Wood program here in the United States has been eagerly and impatiently waiting for FSC-US staff to release their latest version of the Controlled Wood National Risk Assessment (NRA) for the USA.  Tonight at 5:30pm ET it finally...

Still Looking for a Better Way

by | Dec 13, 2017 | General

A colleague and regular reader (AH) sent us an interesting link this week.  We think it is worth sharing and reflecting on.  It seems to offer another, creative and promising look at simplifying the confusing world of wood product certification.   STIP – which...

Implementing Controlled Wood v.3-1

by | Dec 9, 2017 | General

We were pleased in October, when the FSC 2017 General Assembly reached a sensible decision to avoid further trouble and  “Do No Harm” on the contentious and complex topic of Controlled Wood.    This decision, however, did nothing to solve the real problems that this...

Grassroots in Maine

by | Dec 7, 2017 | General

This brief post is to share some good news, and to offer well-deserved congratulations to some of our hard working colleagues who do the real work that makes forest sustainability programs possible. Last month, at the Annual Conference of the Sustainable Forestry...

FSC GA 2017 Day 4: Observations & Comments

by | Oct 12, 2017 | General

MixedWood continues to follow and participate in a number of engaged discussions on several topics at the FSC 2017 General Assembly (GA) in Vancouver this week.  We continue to be impressed with the quality of cross-chamber, collaborative policy and decision making. ...