{"id":18815,"date":"2012-03-21T16:10:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.217.168.59\/?p=18815"},"modified":"2023-03-22T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:15:51","slug":"18815-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forests.org\/fr\/18815-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SFI Blog: Why SFI is Better \u2013 Community Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogger: Patrick Sirois
\nCoordinator, Maine SFI Implementation Committee<\/p>\n

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is asking for comments on the draft language for its LEED rating system. SFI Inc. has invited views on the treatment of <\/em>third-party forest certification<\/em><\/a>, which must be \u201cFSC or better\u201d according to the latest USGBC credit language. In this post, Pat Sirois, Coordinator of the <\/em>Maine SFI Implementation Committee<\/em><\/a> talks about SFI community outreach in Maine.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Maine, there are more than seven million acres certified to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative\u00ae <\/sup>(SFI\u00ae<\/sup>) Standard, and another 780,000 certified to the American Tree Farm Standard. None has LEED recognition. This is unfortunate because these lands represent about half of Maine\u2019s forests, and they are managed sustainably by some of the best forest landowners and managers anywhere.<\/p>\n

It also suggests the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) does not value the many contributions made by volunteer members of the Maine SFI Implementation Committee who work hard to broaden the practice of sustainable forestry on certified and uncertified lands in our state. We are one of 37 community-based SFI implementation committees<\/a> across North America engaged in important initiatives such as logger training, landowner outreach and conservation and community projects.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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