By his own admission in a 2015 criminal plea agreement, Washington state sawmill owner Harold Clause Kupers suspected he had been buying logs illegally harvested from Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Besides his confession, DNA from the illegal timber—not from Kupers—implicated him in the crime.
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Featured Resources
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Tools & Guides
Sourcing Legally Produced Wood: A Guide for Businesses — 2018 Edition
This publication updates the 2014 version of Sourcing Legally Produced Wood, which provides inf
Logging and Export Bans
Many countries have enacted log export ban policies to protect forests or to bolster their domestic timber industry.
Procurement Guide
The Sustainable Procurement Guide and resources were developed to assist sustainability officers and business procurement managers, especially major purchasers of wood and paper-based products lacking “in-house” forest and forestry expertise.
Helpful Contacts
Helpful contacts are experts in issues related to the harvesting, manufacturing, transporting, selling, buying, and tracking of legal wood and wood products. They come from a wide variety of industries, service providers, consultancies, nonprofit organizations, academic insitutions, and government bodies. If you need an expert, look here - and if you are an expert, add yourself to our list.
