Industry/Professional Audiences

Forest Certfication Trends

This presentation explores the origins, development and growth of forest certification programs, with a focus on the five programs that are active in North America and the impacts they have had on the forest sector.

Understanding Chain-of-Custody

This presentation addresses the requirements of chain-of-custody certification and the process of preparing for the CoC audit, completing the audit and responding to the audit findings. This presentation can be tailored to address interests from companies who are participating or planning to participate in certification. This presentation can also be tailored to address the interests from the perspective of architects, builders and other forest product customers that may wish to know more about how certified products are inspected, tracked and verified.

Forestry Standards & Audits

This presentation addresses forest management certification standards and the process of preparing for a forestry audit, completing the audit and responding to the audit findings. This presentation can be tailored to address interests from land managers who are participating or planning to participate in certification. This presentation can also be tailored to address the interests from the perspective of architects, builders and other forest product customers that may wish to know more about how certified forests are inspected and managed.

General Audiences

Knowing the Forest in Your Backyard

This presentation addresses forest history, ecology and management with a focus on the forests of North America. The presentation can be tailored to address specific ecoregions.

Trees, Forests and Good Wood

This presentation addresses forest ecology, tree species biodiversity, responsible forest management and forest certification. The presentation can be tailored to address specific regions of North America.