Paper producers Verso and Sappi partnered with publishers Time, Inc. Hearst Enterprises and the National Geographic Society in a pilot project to secure environmental certification for more of Maine’s forestlands. The first phase of the plan created a way to simplify the SFI certification process for medium size landowners, making it easier for them to develop, implement and coordinate land management to the third-party forest certification standard. The second phase included additional landowners. An additional 1.4 million acres/570,000 hectares have been SFI certified through the project.
