# Presentation: 130108

## CERTIFICATION OF SRWC PLANTATIONS:

**POTLATCH SETS THE BENCHMARK FOR NORTH AMERICA**
**by**
**Jake Eaton**
**Plant Materials Manager**
**Hybrid Poplar Program**
**DOE BFDP Workshop Nov. 7, 2001**

## PRESENTATION OUTLINE:

**Farm overview**
**Discuss major certification systems**
**FSC, SFI, ISO-14001**
**Why FSC was right for Potlatch HPP**
**Certification process**
**Final certification document**
**Market opportunities with certification**

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## INTERNATIONAL FOREST CERTIFICATION ORGANIZATIONS:

**Forest Stewardship Council-FSC**
**Pan European Forest Certification-PEFC**
**Canadian Standards Association-CSA**
**International Standards Organization-ISO14001**

## U. S. FOREST CERTIFICATION ORGANIZATIONS:

**AFPA Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)**
**National Forestry Association Green Tag System**
**USFS Forest Stewardship Program**
**American Forests Foundation Tree Farm System**

## FSC WELL MANAGED FOREST: Principles based on 3 Program Elements

**Environmental****-****sustainability, protect bio-diversity, minimize chemicals, preserve unique habitats**
**Social****-****benefit local communities, promote rights of workers and indigenous peoples, commit to meet all laws and FSC principles**
**Economic****-****profitability comes from sustainability, realistic financial analysis**

## FSC PRINCIPLES:

**Commitment to FSC principles**
**Land tenure rights and responsibilities**
**Indigenous peoples rights**
**Community relations and workers rights**
**Benefits from the forest**
**Environmental impact**
**Management Plan**
**Monitoring and assessment**
**Maintain high conservation value areas**
**Plantations**

## SFI PROGRAM ENROLLEMNT:Based on forest management activities that follow EMS guidelines (ISO14001)

**Use responsible practices**
**Protect forest health and productivity**
**Protect special sites**
**Continuously improve forest management**
**ISO14001-environmental management system**

## ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: ISO14001

**Provides a standard mechanism to address environmental aspects of the enterprise**
**Establishes processes and procedures for verifying conformance**
**Provides tool for communicating progress to management and other stake-holders**
**Continuous improvement is required before public performance declarations are made.**

## COMPARISON OF THE 2 LARGEST CERTIFICATION SYSTEMS:

## WHY FSC WAS RIGHT FOR THE BOARDMAN HPP FARM:

**Greatest environmental credibility of all systems**
**Internationally recognized**
**access to European, Asian markets**
**Immediate market entry**
**Premium on FSC-certified supply**

## CERTIFICATION AWARD BASED ON:

**Scores assigned to the 10 FSC Principles**
**Evaluation team scores**
**5 criteria in each  of the 3 program elements**
**criteria weighted for each element**
**need a minimum of 80 (100 pt. Scale) in each principle and program element**
**Application of “Fatal Flaw Guidelines”**
**not following laws related to worker rights, safety, endangered species, chemical use**
**Conditions and recommendations**

## FSC CERTIFICATION PROCESS:

**Choose accredited certifier**
**Smartwood, Scientific Cert. Systems in US**
**Initial scoping visit-preliminary evaluation**
**Formal audit team**
**multi-day onsite evaluation**
**Team composed of relevant expertise**
**collect data and documents**
**Regionalize and weight evaluation criteria**
**assign scores for compliance with FSC principles and program elements**

## PLANTATION EVALUATION: Audit team scores based on:

**Sustainability**
**plantation forest management planning, silviculture, harvesting, R&D**
**Ecosystem maintenance**
**landscape fit, ecosystem and watercourse mgmt., chemical use, special area reserves**
**Socio-economic benefits**
**financial stability, community and contractor relations, law compliance**

## FSC CERTIFICATION PROCESSContinued:

**Exit meeting**
**PCH preliminary scores in the FSC principle’s and criteria**
**Indicated we were certifiable.**
**Draft evaluation report**
**incorporate peer review**
**PCH comments**
**Final draft and formal announcement**
**5-year certificate awarded with annual audit**

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## POTLATCH CONDITIONS FOR CERTIFICATION:

**Expand management plan for non-timber resources of the “new” ecosystem**
**Remove GMO trials and agree not to do  GMO field trials in the future**
**Continue to prohibit use of FSC banned chemicals and seek alternatives to 2,4-D**
**Reduce the use of chemicals over time and seek non-chemical alternatives**
**Augment our well monitoring program to test for leaching of applied chemicals**

## FSC RECOMMENDATIONS:Examples of the 25 cited:

**Investigate the carbon sequestration potential of the farm**
**Research chlorine affects on soil organisms**
**Collaborate on phytoremediation research with hybrid poplar**
**Continue efforts to purchase and hire locally**
**Diversify plantation with other fast-growing species**

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## FSC DRIVEN MARKET OPPORTUNITIES:

**Certified logs**
**lumber for furniture **
**molding and cut stock**
**Certified fiber**
**MDF door skins**

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