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.
The four-part program, for log
ging manufacturing representa-
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cost of $lO per course per person.
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. This last
segment, also an eight-hour
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course, shows what to do in an not mandating the program,
emeigency. 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.
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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
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