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.