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The Log | School News

Duke Forest Awarded Certification

The Duke Forest and the North Carolina State University school forests are the first university research forests to receive certification by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI).

The 18-month audit process involved the 8,000-acre Duke Forest and 55,000 acres of state-owned and university forests in North Carolina. FSC, a broadly based international system developed by environmental organizations, and SFI, created by the U.S. forest industry, are the two most widely employed certification systems in the country. Certification provides independent, third-party verification that a woodland is being managed according to accepted standards of good forestry.

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