FSC Family Forests Alliance

 

Background

In 2007, the core organizers of the FSC Family Forest Alliance hosted an inaugural national gathering at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, and the outcomes of that gathering defined the Alliance’s first Action Plan. Since that meeting the Alliance has been focused on efforts to develop family forest standards as a part of the FSC standards revision process. The Alliance partners have also initiated carbon credit projects for family forest owners, supported marketing alliances and participated in FSC’s global efforts with small forest holders.
Since 2007, the FSC Family Forests Alliance (FFA) has pursued four primary purposes:

Dovetail Partners, Inc. served as the first Secretariat to the FSC Family Forests Alliance. The Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands will serve in this capacity from 2009-2011.

 

Alliance Organizers:


Alliance Partners:


Alliance partners are individuals or organizations that support the purposes of the Alliance and are currently involved with or pursuing the development of an FSC certification program for family forestowners. Benefits of being a partner include receiving notices and updates from the Alliance about issues related to family forest certification, an opportunity to contribute to the four purposes of the Alliance, and access to the other partners inthe Alliance as resources for solutions to certification's technical challenges.

Alliance Sponsors:



For more information about the FSC Family Forests Alliance and becoming a partner or sponsor, please contact: Kate Albert Read, Director of Harvest Certification and Research at The Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands and Secretariat for the FSC Family Forests Alliance, Kate@tcnef.org, (207)688-8195. 

 

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