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Heppner Hardwoods, Inc. is an
FSC Certified Lumber Company.
Products bearing the FSC logo, which guarantees that the wood
from a certified well-managed forest, are available across the world
from a variety of mills, manufacturers, and distributors.
It's purpose is to coordinate the development of forest management
standards throughout the different biogeographic regions of the
U.S., to provide public information about certification and FSC, and
to work with certification organizations to promote FSC
certification in the U.S.FSC-US has a national presence through the
work of its Board of Directors, members, staff, and regional
standards coordinators.
The FSC's international headquarters are located in Bonn, Germany.
FSC has contact person and national offices in more than 40
countries, creating a global FSC network. In 1995, FSC-US, located
in Minneapolis, MN, was established as the national “chapter” of
FSC. For more information on FSC at the international level, please
visit www.fsc.org.
In the days leading up to and following the 1992 Earth Summit in
Rio, world attention was focused on the challenges faced by cultures
around the globe as demands on their natural resources increased.
Poverty, disease, land use change, climate change, and pollution all
continue to threaten our resources and the stability of cultures
worldwide. The challenges at Rio remain largely unmet. However, the
conversations that occurred there contributed to one solution — the
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
Driven in part by the failure of an intergovernmental process to
agree on a global forest compact, and the compelling question — what
is sustainable forestry? — loggers, foresters, environmentalists,
and sociologists came together in the first General Assembly to form
the FSC in 1993.
The Forest Stewardship Council was created to change the dialogue
about and the practice of sustainable forestry worldwide. This
impressive goal has in many ways been achieved, yet there is more
work to be done. FSC sets forth principles, criteria, and standards
that span economic, social, and environmental concerns. The FSC
standards represent the world's strongest system for guiding forest
management toward sustainable outcomes. Like the forestry profession
itself, the FSC system includes stakeholders with a diverse array of
perspectives on what represents a well-managed and sustainable
forest. While the discussion continues, the FSC standards for forest
management have now been applied in over 57 countries around the
world.