News Brief

All Potlatch Forestland Achieves FSC Certification

As of September 1, 2005, all of Potlatch Corporation’s 1.5 million acres (600,00 ha) of forestland, located in Idaho, Arkansas, Oregon, and Minnesota, has earned certification according to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards. The certification of 319,000 acres (130,000 ha) in Minnesota, along with chain-of-custody certification of a Potlatch sawmill in Bemidji, Minnesota, completed the company’s forestland certification quest, which began with 667,000 acres in Idaho in 2004. For more information on Potlatch and FSC certification, see

EBN

Vol. 12, No. 4;

Vol. 13, No. 5; and

Vol. 14, No. 6. The company is online at www.potlatchcorp.com.

Published October 1, 2005

(2005, October 1). All Potlatch Forestland Achieves FSC Certification. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/all-potlatch-forestland-achieves-fsc-certification

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