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Ontario building pushes limits in tall timber buildings
Nature's insurance plan
SFI and AFF Join Forces to Grow Family Lands Certification
Washington D.C. - We are pleased to announce that the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and the American Forest Foundation (AFF) have formed a new partnership to grow the amount of certified family and other small holdings in North America. Through this partnership, SFI and AFF are working together on a Small Lands Group Certification Module (Module), an innovative way to grow certified family lands and small holdings by building on the foundation of SFI's Fiber Sourcing Standard, and drawing on the strengths of the American Tree Farm System (ATFS) forest management standard.
Carbon, climate, and North America's oldest boreal trees
Deadly disease and warming ocean are wiping out a key starfish species
The Technologies Defining New Southern Yellow Pine Sawmills
With approximately 20 new sawmills expected to be completed between 2017 and 2022 and production capacity increasing by more than 25 percent, the southern yellow pine (SYP) lumber industry is changing rapidly. This blog post, the second in our series about the North American lumber trade, offers a preview of the key technologies these new SYP sawmills will employ.