FSC Forest Certification

Forest Management & Stump-to-Forest Gate Chain-of-Custody Certification Evaluation Report | PUBLIC
Version 7-0 (December 2016) | © SCS Global Services
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Foreword
SCS Global Services (SCS) is a certification body accredited by the Forest Stewardship Council to conduct
forest management and chain of custody evaluations. Under the FSC / SCS certification system, forest
management enterprises (FMEs) meeting international standards of forest stewardship can be certified
as “well managed,” thereby permitting the FME’s use of the FSC endorsement and logo in the
marketplace subject to regular FSC / SCS oversight.
SCS deploys interdisciplinary teams of natural resource specialists and other experts in forested regions
all over the world to conduct evaluations of forest management. SCS evaluation teams collect and
analyze written materials, conduct interviews with FME staff and key stakeholders, and complete field
and office audits of subject forest management units (FMUs) as part of certification evaluations. Upon
completion of the fact-finding phase of all evaluations, SCS teams determine conformance to the FSC
Principles and Criteria.
Organization of the Report
This report of the results of our evaluation is divided into two sections. Section A provides the public
summary and background information that is required by the Forest Stewardship Council. This section is
made available to the general public and is intended to provide an overview of the evaluation process,
the management programs and policies applied to the forest, and the results of the evaluation. Section
A will be posted on the FSC Certificate Database (http://info.fsc.org/) no less than 30 days after issue of
the certificate. Section B contains more detailed results and information for the use of by the FME.