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FSC News and Views, January 2009

Wisconsin’s Group Certificate brings 31,000 landowners into the FSC system

Honored as FSC’s first large-scale certification of family forests in the world, more than 2 million acres of Wisconsin’s privately owned forestlands have just been awarded FSC-certification.

More than 41,000 parcels enrolled in Wisconsin’s Managed Forest Law (MFL) Program were awarded FSC forest management certification on December 16,... (read the whole article)

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