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Find SFI-Certified Forests

The SFI program is one of the largest forest certification programs in the world. There are 149.7 million acres (60.6 million hectares) of independently certified lands across North America that have been audited by accredited certification bodies and have been found to meet the requirements of the rigorous, science-based SFI 2005-2009 Standard.

About 55.7 million acres (22.6 million hectares) is certified in the United States, and about 94 million acres (38 million hectares) is certified in Canada.

Both private and public landowners certify forestlands to the SFI Standard. Any type of organization with forest management responsibilities – whether private company, government, conservation group, university or other entity – may be a forest management certificate holder.

Using this search engine, you can find out which organizations have SFI-certified lands, how much land is certified to the SFI 2005-2009 Standard, what species are grown on certified lands, how long the lands have been certified, and which certification bodies conducted the audits.