On the threshold of the 21st century, International Paper is a diversified, global company with manufacturing operations in the western hemisphere, Europe, Asia and Africa. Its international presence is the result of long-term changes that evolved since the company's founding in 1898. Starting as a pulp and paper company based in the northeastern part of the United States, IP expanded into Canada and the American South during the 1920s. Three decades later, the company began expanding beyond North America. This was followed during the 1980s by the acquisition of subsidiaries operating in Europe, Africa and Asia.

The National Association of State Foresters is a non-profit organization that represents the directors of the State Forestry agencies from all fifty states, eight U.S. territories (American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Northern Marianas Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), and the District of Columbia.

The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is the lead stewardship agency for the preservation and protection of North Carolina's outstanding natural resources. The organization, which has offices from the mountains to the coast, administers regulatory programs designed to protect air quality, water quality, and the public's health. DENR also offers technical assistance to businesses, farmers, local governments, and the public and encourages responsible behavior with respect to the environment through education programs provided at DENR facilities and through the state's school system. Through its natural resource divisions, DENR works to protect fish, wildlife and wilderness areas. The agency's activities range from helping to make sure drinking water is safe to managing state parks and forests for safe and enjoyable outdoor recreation experiences. From A (aquariums on the coast) to Z (the N.C.

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Pulp and Paper Technology
Portal for the pulp and paper industry. Product and service supplier catalogue, global events and conference diary, global associations directory, projects and industry links.

The Roundtable is an inclusive partnership of public and private organizations and individuals, promoting the national goal of sustainable forests through implementation of a set of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management that will lead to increased understanding and better decision making.

SmartWood was the world's first independent forestry certifier. Established in 1989, we pioneered the concept of forest and forest-products certification, which has since taken hold around the world. Today, SmartWood is the world’s leading nonprofit forestry certifier.

We are a coalition of nonprofit conservation organizations, forestry practitioners and others working to provide private landowners information, forestry expertise and legal assistance so that they can protect their forests for generations to come and realize sustainable income.

The Sustainable Forest Management Network is a national partnership in research and training excellence. Its mission is to deliver an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary program that undertakes relevant university-based research. It will develop networks of researchers, industry, government and First Nations partners, and offer innovative approaches to knowledge transfer. The Network will train scientists and advanced practitioners to meet the challenges of modern natural resource management.

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) program is a comprehensive system of principles, objectives and performance measures developed by professional foresters, conservationists and scientists, among others that combines the perpetual growing and harvesting of trees with the long-term protection of wildlife, plants, soil and water quality. There are currently over 150 million acres of forestland in North America enrolled in the SFI® program, making it among the world's largest sustainable forestry programs.