WVFA Mountain State Forestry Winter 2020-21

SFI E-Summit Managed Forests Deliver on Shared Sustainability Goals By Nadine Block MORE THAN 330 VIRTUAL ATTENDEES from across the U.S. and Canada joined the Sustainable Forestry Initiative’s E-Summit, Growing Solutions, to share ideas about how sustainably managed forests, and products sourced from those forests, are great tools to achieve shared sustainability goals. “We’re leading with the sustainability topics people care about. Our goal is to demonstrate how we can address these sustainability challenges through our mission of forest-focused collaborations,” said Kathy Abusow, President and CEO of SFI Inc, as she opened the e-summit on October 22. SFI has been a leader in sustainable forest management through its standards for 25 years. In recent years, SFI has built on its successes and evolved into a solutions-oriented sustainability organization. The e-summit was a chance for attendees to learn about our evolution and how our network, expertise, and scale is engaging the next generation of forest and conservation leaders so that SFI will continue to champion sustainability for the next 25 years and beyond. S U S T A I N A B L E F O R E S T R Y I N I T I A T I V E Winter 2020-2021 | West Virginia Forestry Association Mountain State Forestry 25 www.wvfa.org