Logger Certification Program Promises To Be Forest-Friendly ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) —To counter a growing anti logger sentiment prevalent with environmentalists and to help ensure an environmentally friend ly approach which slowly earns the respect of woodland landowners, a new program helps to focus on improved training for loggers. The program, called the Sus tainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) of Pennsylvania, began in April last year. SFI, based in State College, is a program sponsored through the state’s 140-member Hardwood Lumber Manufacturers Associa tion in Lebanon. To date, 1,353 loggers have participated in some level of training, according to Ken Manno, SFI program manager. The program is “trying to ensure the future well-being and viability of the forest products industry.” noted Manno. Manno indicated that the envir onmentally concerned program is put in place to ensure the vitality of the $5 billion forest products industry the fourth largest industry in Pennsylvania, he said, which employs a little less than 100,000 people. 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Actual cost, with help from the industries, is about $25 per person per course. The courses are divided into four parts, eight hours in length. The entire program takes about 18 months to complete. ’Timber harvesting can be done in an environmentally sound man ner and provide a crop of timber for today and tomorrow,” said Charles Brown, district manager for Glatfelter Pulp Wood Com pany in Spring Grove and training coordinator for the SFI in the state’s southeast region. Brown addressed some of the concerns the SFI has for landow ners who are thinking about log ging. Landowners should consider those best management practices (BMPs), the “scientific tools,” the SFI noted, designed to help forest landowners, foresters, and timber harvesters practice good forest management. Brown said that, sometimes, landowners don't “think through what they’re doing,” often ran domly selecting timber to harvest and perhaps going about it the wrong way. He noted that stumpage prices can be high for certain types of wood, such as red oak a value anywhere from $5OO-$l,OOO or more on the stump. A landowner may enter the woodland and decide to harvest only the red oak and leave the red maple and other “junk” species behind. How does the landowner log the area successfully? What’s the owner to do to prevent soil ero sion? What kind of shape should the area be left in and what about the viability of other tree species? And can the landowner log it safely and correctly? Those are questions the SFI hopes to answer. There are four components to SFI certification, said Brown: • Safety. The training, an eight hour course, discusses the hazards and provides detailed instruction on how to harvest timber safely. • Business management and forestry. This eight-hour course details how to plan forest manage ment and how to determine forest values. ■ Environmental logging. This eight-hour session provides infor mation on forest operations ar J the mandatory requirements which may apply. This course also pro vides information on erosion and sedimentation control. • First aid and CPR. 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The program also uses the The BMPs of forest manage- resources by various profession ment are provided by the Amcri- als, including foresters, conserva can Forest and Paper Association tionists, business managers, envir (AF&PA), the national organiza- onmental loggers, and others to tion based in Washington, D.C. help those who enroll complete the Other information is supplied by program. Penn State Cooperative Extension Additional training on top of the Forest Resources, University Park, certification is being planned, the Pennsylvania Tree Farm Com- according to Manno of SFI. mittee of the American Forest For more information, contact Foundation, Washington, D.C., Charles R. Brown at The Glatfelter and the Pennsylvania Forest Ste- Pulpwood Company, 228 South wardship Program or the DCNR Main SL, Spring Grove, PA 17362, Bureau of Forestry in Harrisburg. '(717) 225-4711 or Ken Manno, According to Brown, one recent SFI of Pa., 315 S. Allen St., Suite certification training seminar in 222, State College, PA 16801, Breezewood included a group of (814) 867-9259 or toll-free at less than 30 loggers and foresters. (888) 734-9336. Most of the group consisted of log- -jj, _ ging contractors, including the f OUFid<lXl Oil owner of a business, truck drivers, 1711 __ x _ • ___ field operators, and others. HiCCtS Llldirilldll Another session is scheduled on environmental logging in Cham bersburg May 18. Similar sessions are being con ducted in Dauphin and other areas. Brown noted that the SFI has not taken a “crash-type” mentality like other companies who mandate training to stay on the job. Instead, SFI has used a measured, flexible, open approach encouraging loggers to become involved and r LIQUID 1 MANURE SPREADER Cn\\ Fur SAVINGS On 11/;!I 1 /;! Uwntnl Units ARLINGTON, Va. Donald W. 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