Since 1995, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)® has existed to promote the perpetual growing and harvesting of trees in a way that is compatible with the protection of wildlife, plants and soil and water quality.
In Florida and across North America, SFI® program participants adhere to a set of principles that address how they operate on their own lands and how they conduct procurement practices across all ownerships. Collectively and individually, SFI members promote the practice of sustainable forestry on all lands by funding logger and forester education and encouraging landowners to manage their forests sustainably.
Many SFI program participants have also been third-party certified to the SFI standard by independent auditors.
Many of our industry members are participants of this comprehensive program of forestry and conservation practices designed to ensure that future generations of Americans will have the same abundant forests that we enjoy today. The largest sustainable forestry and certification program in the world, encompassing nearly over 130 million acres of forest land throughout North America, SFI® includes these Florida companies and agencies:
- Plum Creek Timber Company
- Packaging Corporation of America
- Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation
- Rayonier, Inc.
- Gilman Building Products
- Georgia-Pacific Corporation
- International Paper Company
- Resource Management Services, Inc.
- Suwannee River Water Management District
Help sustain our forests today and for the future. To find out more about the SFI program at the national level, go to www.sfiprogram.org.
If you see a forest activity that is not consistent with the standards outlined in this Web site, we want to know about it! We will take every step possible to help rectify the problem. Any direct violation of these standards is taken very seriously. An actual infraction must be a direct violation of these SFI® standards and must be reported providing specific correlations to these standards.
