It welcomes opportunities to work with more of them. The 4th quarter Timber-Mart South report just arrived. The Timber-Mart South Report is copyrighted and the new subscription agreements do not allow us to reproduce a more complete quarterly price summary as we have done in past issues. However, the complete summary will be made available to County Extension Directors. Contact their offices for additional information.
Opinions abound on the certification of forest management practices.
The original intent of certification in developing countries was to encourage a sustainable forest products industry where it had not existed before. These objectives should look familiar because they are very similar to the goals of the Forest Stewardship program. The certification process would guarantee to the consumer that all practices used in growing and processing certified wood products were sustainable from the silvicultural operations of the forest landowner to the final manufacturer, and all the processes in between. The Tropical Forest Management Trust, headquartered in Gainesville, recently teamed up with Tall Timbers Research in Tallahassee, to coordinate the process of developing forest certification standards for the Southeast. In addition, Steve Lindemann is the liaison at Tall Timbers.