Wood Procurement Policy
The SFI Standard requires that participants adhere to the following practices when purchasing wood:
1) Promote the practice of sustainable forestry and provide information about the SFI program to wood suppliers;
2) Encourage that wood suppliers employ qualified resource and logging professionals and make available a list of such professionals as appropriate;
3) Will not purchase wood from unknown sources;
4) Will not purchase wood from sources that are known to employ forest practices that are not consistent with the principles of sustainable forestry;
5) Will not purchase wood from illegally harvested forests; and
6) Will not purchase wood from outside North America that are identified as biodiversity hotspots.
