The Outlook, June 2012

W e l c o m e

 

 

As we do each June, this month we offer a re-cap of our news, reports and commentaries from the first half of the year.  An opportunity to catch our breath as we get ready for the second half of the year, and a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed the first time around.

 

This month, we also offer a new commentary that builds on the conversation started last month regarding the current status and future opportunities for forest and wood product certification.

 

I hope you have enjoyed a good first-half of 2012! Where you find value in the work of Dovetail, I also hope you will consider making a donation to support our continued delivery of trusted environmental information.  Thank you - and Enjoy!

 

- Katie
Kathryn Fernholz
Executive Director

 

D o v e t a i l  C o m m e n t a r y

 

 

Jeff Howe & Kathryn Fernholz

 

When you make maple syrup there is a time after all the preparation and collection of material (sap and firewood usually) from the forest that you simply have to turn up the heat, stir it up a bit, and tend to it carefully to make it come out well.  Certification may be at the same point.

 

The original goal of forest certification was to create a label that would enable the market to identify and select wood from well-managed forests and thus allow demand from the marketplace to provide economic benefit that would translate into increased funding for better forest management practices.  In short, the goal was to link clear market choices with sustainable forestry.

 

Last month’s commentary “Beyond Certification” discussed the opportunity to learn from the past 20 years of forest certification and to identify opportunities to both improve on existing programs and develop new approaches. This month’s commentary takes a look at forest certification from two opposite ends of the spectrum, that of the forest and that of the marketplace to see if it is successfully addressing that original goal and to recommend a possible next step.

 

 

D o v e t a i l  N e w s

 

 

D o v e t a i l  R e p o r t s  &  C o m m e n t a r i e s

 

January 2012


 

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