Potlatch to undergo SFI, FSC assessment comparison. (Trends & News).Potlatch potlatch (pŏt`lăch'), ceremonial feast of the natives of the NW coast of North America, entailing the public distribution of property. Corp. of Potlatch, ID, will become the first publicly-traded company in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. to undergo a dual assessment of its forest management practices under the standards of 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 assessment will be conducted with full transparency, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, which is coordinating the comparison. Potlatch will make all fundings, results, recommendations and reports available to the public. The Institute will examine forest management practices on Potlatch's 670,000 acres of timberland in Idaho in side-by-side field examinations. Potlatch will also perform a "reverse assessment" as an evaluation of its experience with the two certification standards. "We've completed dual assessment projects on public forestlands across the U.S. over the last five years," said Catherine Mater, Pinchot Institute senior fellow and certification projects manager. "Transferring the lessons from public lands to private corporately owned forestlands is difficult... The full transparency of this project allows us to really learn from the experience." |
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