Following the ceremony, Rowan County Ranger Wayne Alexander will speak to the children about Arbor Day and distribute tree seedlings. Dylan s poster will continue to the national competition sponsored by Keebler Company and The National Arbor Day Foundation. The national winner will be announced in April. The Arbor Day National Poster Contest is open to fifth grade students located in states with a designated state contest coordinator. The national contest has been held since 1992 to help promote the importance of trees and Arbor Day.
Sustainability includes the ecological, economic, and social aspects of managing forests.
These two-certification processes have management techniques with different components but ultimately have the same objective of sustainable forestry. Third-party firms will act as certifiers and will audit the forests for conformity to the certification systems standards. The project will allow us to assess expanding forest certification benefits to the non-industrial private landowners, who own 76 percent of North Carolina s forests. We can improve educational programs about certification for our students and for professional forest land managers. The audits are expected to begin this spring and should be completed in a year.