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FSC
Family Forests Alliance
The FSC Family
Forests Alliance has been created to provide a national mechanism for bringing
together individuals and organizations committed to promoting responsible
forest stewardship through FSC standards. By creating a forum for communication,
cooperation, and information sharing, participants in the Alliance can pursue
issues of common interest, learn from one another, and enlarge the community
of landowners and small businesses practicing responsible forestry.
Alliance Organizers:
- John Gunn, Manomet
Center for Conservation Sciences, Brunswick, ME
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Ian Hanna, Northwest Natural Resource
Group, Port Townsend, WA
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Alyx Perry, Southern
Forests Network, Asheville, NC
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Kate Albert Read, Trust to Conserve
Northeast Forestlands, New Gloucester, ME
The
four primary purposes of the FSC Family Forests Alliance are to:
- Advocate for
FSC policies, public policies, and procurement policies that better
serve FSC-certified family forests.
- Operate as
a forum to share information and strategies for successful models of
certification, forest management, policy development, and market development.
- Provide more
visible networks and membership opportunities for family forest owners
who feel underserved by existing forest management models and landowner
organizations.
- Work collaboratively
to develop new resources and tools for group certification programs.
Alliance Partners:
Alliance
partners are individuals or organizations that support the purposes of the
Alliance and are currently involved with or pursuing the development of
an FSC certification program for family forestowners. Benefits of being
a partner include receiving notices and updates from the Alliance about
issues related to family forest certification, an opportunity to contribute
to the four purposes of the Alliance, and access to the other partners inthe
Alliance as resources for solutions to certification's technical challenges.
Alliance
Sponsors:
- Verso
Paper, First Founding Sponsor ("Verso
Paper Founding Sponsor of Alliance" click
here for press release)
- Fox Foundation
(in memory of Elaine Fox), Founding Sponsor
- NewPage Corporation,
Founding Sponsor
- Ford Foundation
- Flintridge Foundation
- Potlatch Corporation
- The Johnson Foundation
- Stora Enso
- Weyerhaeuser Family
Foundation
For more information about the FSC Family Forests Alliance and becoming
a partner or sponsor, please contact: Kathryn
Fernholz, Executive Director of Dovetail Partners and Secretariat for
the FSC Family Forests Alliance, info@dovetailinc.org
, 612-333-0430.
To download a one-page flyer about the
Alliance, click
here (pdf).
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- Headlines...
- Family Forests Alliance Year-End Report
- 2009 Action Plan Priorities Identified
Read more...
Verso Paper Corp. Provides $100,000 Grant to Expand
FSC Forest Certification in the Northeastern United States
Read
more...
FSC Identifies Next Steps for Family Forest Certification
International Meeting Participants Define the Opportunities
Read more...
DOVETAIL
PARTNERS, INC.
528 Hennepin Ave, Suite 202
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Phone: 612-333-0430
Fax: 612-333-0432
info@dovetailinc.org
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