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Part III: Forest Management Practices

1. [Insert organization] is encouraging its paper suppliers to know the sources of and forest

management practices employed to provide their pulpwood supply, and to ensure that the

landowners, loggers and others in their supply chains use the best environmental practices. Do

you currently have chain of custody control over some or all of your pulpwood supply? If so,

please describe. Additionally, what steps are you taking to ensure that the loggers that harvest

wood for your mills are using the best environmental practices?

2. [Insert organization] believes that independent third-party certification helps paper suppliers

ensure that environmentally preferred forest management practices are employed at each link in

the supply chain. Are the forest management practices that you and/or your suppliers employ

currently certified by an independent third-party? If so, please describe.

3. Environmental and social responsibility reports can provide accountability and transparency on a

company’s environmental and social responsibility record. Do you publish a report describing

your forest management practices and efforts to minimize your environmental impacts? If so,

please provide your most recent report.

4. “Endangered,” “old growth” and “high conservation value” are terms that describe forests that

may contain rare, threatened or endangered species, habitats or ecosystems; provide critical

watershed protection or erosion control; or be of special cultural or ecological significance. What

steps are you taking to ensure that pulpwood procurement does not contribute to the loss of such

forests? In addition, what steps are you taking to contribute to the conservation and restoration

of these forests (e.g., land donations, easements, increasing endangered species populations)?

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