FSC Group Certification
A group of us at school are working on a proposal to certify a
watershed under the FSC scheme. The watershed is comprised of primarily private woodlot owners (96% by area), so we are looking at group certification as a possibility. It is our understanding that each landowner will still be able to manage their land according to their own values as long as the principles and criteria are met, while cooperating with each other to meet landscape level objectives. The average woodlot is about 35 ha in size. We have begun to ask ourselves a few questions on the topic of sustainability, or specifically sustainable wood supply, and that is: At what scale should the harvest be sustainable? The woodlot scale or the watershed scale? If at the watershed scale, how do you allocate portions of the AAC across hundreds of landowners? We're proposing sustainability at the watershed level, with some sort of a quota system. Just wondering how other group certification initiatives have tackled this issue. Scott |
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