Forest stewardship or sustainable forestry programs including third party certification are becoming a standard operating practice in today’s forest industry. Major customers such as Lowe’s, Home Depot, REI, OfficeMax, Office Depot, Bank of America, LL Bean, Norm Thompson, Centex Homes and many other companies now have environmentally oriented procurement policies that provide preference or even require paper and wood suppliers to provide assurances regarding sustainable forestry practices.
Many North American forest products companies are working to meet this challenge to maintain or increase market share.
- Do you want to provide a sustainable forestry program?
- Are any of your customers requiring you to report your compliance with their new environmental procurement policies?
- Are you considering a certification audit for your forest management program or are you preparing for a recertification audit?
- Should your customers and vendors have a better understanding of your efforts to protect the environment?
- Do you need to better understand the environmental performance of your raw materials supply chain?
If you are answering "yes" to any of these questions, Forest Resources Affairs can help you.
Bill Dryden successfully guided Boise Cascade through two sustainable forestry certification audits and established an environmental communications program. Sustainable forestry takes a commitment to internal policies and responsive implementation in all operations. The more difficult effort is to gain value from those investments through effective and ongoing communications with customers, vendors, environmental groups and others so your company not only maintains, but increases market share. Having a successful stewardship program has limited value unless you tell your customers and others about the good things you are doing for them. Forest Resources Affairs can integrate our capabilities into your current operations to increase the values gained from your existing sustainable forestry program. Or we can assess your operations and recommend and begin implementing the appropriate steps for establishing your comprehensive and cost effective forest stewardship program.