{"id":857,"date":"2010-10-01T19:19:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T23:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodforforests.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2023-03-23T17:54:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T21:54:51","slug":"sfi-conference-recognizing-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forests.org\/fr\/sfi-conference-recognizing-partnerships\/","title":{"rendered":"SFI Conference \u2013 Recognizing Partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite parts of the SFI conference is our awards luncheon. The conference lets us reflect on all of our shared successes from the last year \u2013 and the awards lunch lets us recognize some of the outstanding achievements of our program participants and partners.<\/p>\n

This year I presented three awards, all showing the power of partnership in action. Winners each received a carving with symbols of Aboriginal culture created by Curtis Wilson (Muliszas)<\/a>, a First Nations artist and carver from northern Vancouver Island. I was pleased that Curtis was at our conference so delegates had a chance to appreciate more of his amazing work. In fact, I bought a piece for myself \u2013 it\u2019s already hanging on my wall.<\/p>\n

The SFI President’s Award<\/a> went to five companies \u2013 Time Inc., Hearst Corporation, Verso Paper Corp., Sappi Fine Paper North America and NewPage Corporation \u2013 that acted on their commitment to responsible sourcing. They started a pilot project, in partnership with SFI Inc. and the www.treefarmsystem.org<\/a>, to make third-party forest certification more efficient and accessible to small- and medium-sized landowners and, as a result, increased the amount of certified land in Maine. It made sense to conduct the pilot in Maine because of the state\u2019s strong commitment to all forest certification standards.<\/p>\n

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Award recipients included:<\/p>\n