The state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has earned top grades for sustainable logging practices on more than 145,000 acres of state forestlands in the Puget Sound region.
The certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) comes after a review of all aspects of forestry on the lands in question, from the size of clear-cuts to length of time between harvests.
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Family forest owners in the U.S., who own nearly two-thirds of the country's forestlands, today cheered the international approval of the American Tree Farm System(R) (ATFS) by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC)
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