{"id":19059,"date":"2014-02-19T13:53:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T13:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.217.168.59\/?p=19059"},"modified":"2023-03-22T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T18:07:25","slug":"st-joe-timberlands-certify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forests.org\/fr\/st-joe-timberlands-certify\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Joe Timberlands Certify Half a Million Acres to SFI Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, DC<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2013The Sustainable Forestry Initiative\u00ae (SFI\u00ae) Inc. is pleased to announce that over half\u00a0a million acres of timberland owned by The St. Joe Company have recently been certified to the SFI\u00a0Standard. The majority of the timberlands are located in Northwest Florida and have become a proof\u00a0point for responsible forest management certification to the SFI Standard.<\/p>\n

St. Joe\u2019s SFI certification is part of the SFI Forest Partners\u00ae Program. In 2012, four market leaders \u2013 Time\u00a0Inc., the National Geographic Society, Macmillan Publishers, Pearson \u2013 stepped forward and became SFI\u00a0Founding Forest Partners, investing in the future of our forests by making five-year commitments to\u00a0increase the source of certified forest products. Through the financial support to assist with consulting\u00a0services, workshops and coordination, the Program works to involve more landowners, manufacturers,\u00a0distributors, customers, conservations groups and government agencies across the supply-chain with\u00a0the goal of certifying 5 million acres of forests to the SFI standard by 2014 and 5 million more acres by\u00a02017. By collaborating on shared objectives and linking landowners through to brandowners, SFI and\u00a0our Forest Partners are working together to strengthen forest practices and procurement through\u00a0certification.<\/p>\n

“This is terrific news for forestry and forest conservation in the U.S. South,” said Kathy Abusow,\u00a0President and CEO of SFI Inc. “We couldn\u2019t be more delighted to include St. Joe among our SFI program\u00a0participants. Their holistic approach to managing the forest resource for values including land, water\u00a0and wildlife, align with SFI\u2019s larger forestry and conservation objectives. Together we can ensure that\u00a0future forests are managed for all of the values they provide to the public.”<\/p>\n

“At St. Joe we\u2019ve long honored our responsibility to protect Florida\u2019s natural resources, including\u00a0working with federal agencies to place over 124,000 acres of our lands into permanent conservation,”\u00a0said David Harrelson, Sr. Vice President at The St. Joe Company. “We\u2019re pleased to announce today that\u00a0we\u2019ve added to our responsible forest management credentials, recently obtaining SFI certification of\u00a0over 521,000 acres, a significant contribution to increasing the amount of certified forests in the U.S.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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