What is the Sustainable Forestry Initiative?
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) program is a comprehensive system of principles, objectives and performance measures developed by professional foresters, conservationists and scientists, among others that combines the perpetual growing and harvesting of trees with the long-term protection of wildlife, plants, soil and water quality. The SFI program was developed in 1994 to ensure North America’s valuable forests were protected and to document the commitment of forest products industry memebrs to keep our forests healthy and to practice the highest level of sustainable forestry. Currently over 126 million acres of forestland in North America have been third-party audited to the SFI standard, making the SFI program among the world’s largest sustainable forestry programs.
