I am all for SFI. That having been said, I have to wonder how many of these SFI auditors actually live in the REAL forestland ownership world and own as well as manage all aspects of forestland owners of a significant forestland acreage???? If they do, and they weigh & take into account the burdens of forestland ownership in their audits, my hat is off to them. Otherwise, their findings are just yet more of the ESG bs that idealists who have no clue of what business & common sense care of the land, wildlife, water quality, and air quality are about in a hopefully still Capitalist free market economy.
@wrfarms9741 what we can say for Richard, the auditor in this video, is that he has worked in the forestry industry for >40 years and managed forestland for the first two decades before becoming an auditor. In order to audit forest owners like us, an auditor has to have an expansive understanding of the entire industry and all the nuances of what forest ownership entails.
I am all for SFI. That having been said, I have to wonder how many of these SFI auditors actually live in the REAL forestland ownership world and own as well as manage all aspects of forestland owners of a significant forestland acreage???? If they do, and they weigh & take into account the burdens of forestland ownership in their audits, my hat is off to them. Otherwise, their findings are just yet more of the ESG bs that idealists who have no clue of what business & common sense care of the land, wildlife, water quality, and air quality are about in a hopefully still Capitalist free market economy.
@wrfarms9741 what we can say for Richard, the auditor in this video, is that he has worked in the forestry industry for >40 years and managed forestland for the first two decades before becoming an auditor. In order to audit forest owners like us, an auditor has to have an expansive understanding of the entire industry and all the nuances of what forest ownership entails.