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Dovetail
is Growing!
Dovetail Partners Adds Staff and a Board of Advisors Dovetail has worked hard to become a preeminent provider of objective information on issues related to forestry and the forest products industry. With the help of our many partners in universities, government, and other public and private organizations we are well along the path to achieving our mission of providing unique concepts, systems, programs, and models that foster sustainable forestry and catalyze responsible trade and consumption. Hopefully we are stimulating a little creative thinking on the way. To ensure our success as we grow, Dovetail has expanded our access to and linkage with top leaders in our industry from across the country. We are thrilled to have the following experts actively guiding Dovetail’s activities. - Jeff Board of Directors Brian Adams, Senior Vice President, Bremer Bank Eric Bloomquist, Founder and former CEO of Colonial Craft James Bowyer, Ph.D. Bio-products and Environmental Consultant Kim Carlson, Founder, EarthSmart LLC Edwin Chanin, Attorney, Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand Jeffrey Howe, Ph.D. Chairman of Dovetail, CEO of Fullerton Companies Jill Koosmann, CEO, HRK Group, Inc. Program Directors Kathryn Fernholz, Executive Director James Bowyer, Director of Responsible Materials Program Alison Lindburg, Director of Eco-affordable Housing Program Matthew Wenban-Smith, Director of Certification Program Board of Advisors William Banzhaf, President, Sustainable Forestry Board Paul DeLong, Wisconsin State Forester, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry R. Philip Guillery, Forestry Consultant Robert Hrubes, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Scientific Certification Systems, Forest Conservation Program Douglas MacCleery, Senior Policy Analyst, Forest Management Division, National Forest System, Washington, D.C. Patrick O'Brien, Organizational Development Consultant -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WERC Workshop Presentations Available The workshop "Helping the Wood Products Industry Profit From the Next 10 Years" included presentations from leading innovators in the industry with real-life and current-day examples of implementation of strategic thinking and repositioning, new leadership models, mass customization, LEAN manufacturing, and other approaches. The US Forest Service, Wood Education and Resource Center (WERC) and Dovetail Partners offered the workshop. Presentations from the workshop are now available at the Dovetail website: http://www.dovetailinc.org/wercworkshop.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D o v e t a i l i n t h e N e w s US Forests See Dynamic Growth, but Challenges Loom Ahead How much forestland exists in the United States today compared with 1900? Answer: About the same. Is the amount of forestland increasing or decreasing? Answer: Increasing, as is the volume of standing timber. Surprising? Perhaps, but either way, the answers aren’t trivial. http://www.safnet.org/archive/ForestGrowthApril06.pdf The Forestry Source, April 2006, Society of American Foresters Dollars & Sense: Stalking bamboo Retailers looking to satisfy our with to be "green" have embraced these trendy new products. But are we being bamboozled? John Ewoldt, StarTribune, April 18, 2006 http://www.startribune.com/1229/story/376123.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D o v e t a i l R e p o r t s All publications are available online at: http://www.dovetailinc.org/publications.html Forest Certification Auditor Qualifications Kathryn Fernholz A common question about forest certification is, who are these auditors and what are their qualifications? While sometimes posed as a fairly hostile question, it is nonetheless, a legitimate one. For many potential participants in certification or critics of the systems, auditor credibility is at the heart of certification credibility. Qualifications for auditing firms and auditors are outlined by each individual certification program. These programs often draw upon other sources of auditing standards, the frequently citied one is ISO 19011:2002 Guidelines for quality and/or environmental management systems auditing. This report provides information about auditor qualification requirements for the two most widely used forest certification programs in the United States, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). To read the introduction and download the report, click here. An Environmental Quiz That Can Open the Door to Inquiry and Learning About Forests & Forestry Dr. Jim Bowyer Note: This article discusses the development and use of an environmental quiz that was created for use with a variety of student and adult audiences. If you wish to experience the quiz firsthand click here ( ); completion requires about 10 minutes. Just for fun sometime, ask your kids, grandkids, or another child what they know about forests. What you will find – and this observation is supported by surveys of many young people over a fifteen year period – is a pervasive pessimism about not only forests, but about the environment in general. Moreover, if you ask questions that have verifiable answers (for instance, trends in forest land area, trends in forest growth and harvest, percent of paper collected for recycling) you will encounter answers that are consistently and significantly to the pessimistic side of wrong. In 1991 a short environmental quiz was developed at the University of Minnesota and has been administered to students annually since that time. This quiz has been extremely useful in stimulating discussion about forest and environmental trends. Focusing on topics from population to raw material consumption trends, the quiz actively engages those who participate in filing it out, stimulates comparison of answers and interaction among participants after the quiz is completed, and provides an entrée to informal discussion and further questions as correct answers are shared. To read the introduction and download the report, click here.
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