Olympic Resource Management fully supports sustainable forestry certification methodologies for timberlands in the United States, Canada, and worldwide. We currently manage all of our lands to Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) standards. The SFI program integrates the perpetual growing and harvesting of trees with the protection of wildlife, plants, soil, air, and water quality. It’s a simple premise that we meet and embrace every day.

ORM is proud to be a full program participant for SFI, and to meet and exceed the management standards established by North America’s largest forest certification program. We apply these standards to the lands we manage for our parent company, Pope Resources, and the Timber Fund properties we own together with our investors.

The nine key principals of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative are:

In 2006 and on an annual basis beginning in 2007, PricewaterhouseCoopers independently verified our 115,000 acres of fee ownership in Washington State as being in compliance with the SFI standard. Our foresters work every day to insure our forests will continue to supply a continuous flow of wood products in a socially responsible and sustainable manner. In addition, the 24,000 acres of land we manage on behalf of our Timber Funds fully comply with these standards. At ORM, we believe good stewardship is good business.

Click here for a PDF of Olympic Resource Management's Sustainable Forestry Initiative Auditors' Report.