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Forest Stewardship Council: Green Wood, or Greenwashing?

The other day, I was scouring google for images of environmental destruction for a slideshow.  To my surprise, I came across a website (FSC-Watch) that aggregates information about the poor practices of forestry operations that have been Forest Stewardship Council certified.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the FSC, it is the largest certifier ‘sustainabily harvested’ timber.  For the past several years, it has been one of the main ‘Green Features’ touted by the timber industry.

While I’ve always approached lumber marketed as ‘sustainably harvested’ with skepticism, I’m finding that the information on FSC-Watch’s website points to significantly greater destruction of ecosystems than I had previously expected from anything with an FSC label.