News Brief

Al-Pac Achieves World's Largest FSC Certification

A 13.6 million acre (5.5 million ha) forest in Alberta, Canada, managed by Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries, Inc. (Al-Pac), has earned certification according to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards, making it the largest FSC-certified forest in the world. The announcement also makes Canada the leading country in the world for FSC-certified forestland, with 35.3 million acres (14.3 million ha), or 23% of the global total. Al-Pac is online at www.alpac.ca. FSC is online at www.fsc.org. For more on FSC and forest certification, seeEBN Vol. 12, No. 4.

Published November 1, 2005

Boehland, J. (2005, November 1). Al-Pac Achieves World's Largest FSC Certification. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/al-pac-achieves-worlds-largest-fsc-certification

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