SFI’s “secret” final draft

by | Oct 24, 2014 | General

Earlier this year, we wrote extensively about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) program’s public consultation process for the update of their standards.  We gave SFI high marks for conducting a very thorough and transparent process to release a complete...

Because Forests Matter

by | Oct 17, 2014 | General

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

by | Sep 4, 2014 | General

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 (?)

by | Sep 2, 2014 | General

  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

by | Aug 22, 2014 | General

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...

Let’s give FSC some feedback on Controlled Wood

by | Jul 21, 2014 | General

It is easy to become overwhelmed with the sheer complexity of FSC policy development lately.  We thought that a reminder about one of the most important of these – the Controlled Wood program –  would be helpful. Here is a quick summary (with key links) of...

Does PEFC CoC contain a poison pill?

by | Jul 10, 2014 | General

In our last post, we recommended the new PEFC Guidance Document (PEFC GD 2001:2014) as “required reading” for anyone with a serious interest in Chain of Custody (CoC) certification for wood products. Along with many industry watchers,  we have been...

New Guidance for PEFC CoC

by | Jun 26, 2014 | General

When PEFC released the latest version of its Chain of Custody (CoC) standard in May of 2013, they also let it be know that they were working on an accompanying guidance document, which was planned for release in the fall.  The new CoC standard became mandatory in...