Maine's timberlands certified by FSC, SFI. (Trends & News).Maine has become the first state in the nation to have all of its government-owned forest lands certified by both the Forest Stewardship Council The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a non-profit organization based in Bonn, Germany. The Council's stated mission is "to promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world's forests". and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative The Sustainable Forestry Initiative is a program to certify forests to insure they are being managed in a sustainable manner. SFI was started in 1994 by members of the American Forest and Paper Association. . The Bangor Daily News The Bangor Daily News is an American newspaper that was founded on June 18, 1889; in 1900 the paper merged with the Bangor Whig and Courier. The Bangor Publishing Company publishes the paper in Bangor, Maine, in addition to several weekly papers that they reported that Maine's Governor Angus King said that the state had found differences between the two systems, but that the state has not yet determined the meaning of those differences. |
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