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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2015 - 2016
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | June 2, 2015 04:00 PM |
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| From: | Senator Scott E. Hutchinson |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Recognizing Friday, June 5, 2015 as PA Sustainable Forestry Initiative Day in Pennsylvania |
| In the near future I intend to introduce a resolution recognizing Friday, June 5, 2015 as PA Sustainable Forestry Initiative Day in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Sustainable Forestry Initiative Implementation Committee (PA SIC) was formed in 1995 and began meeting monthly in State College. The early focus of the SIC was on establishing a logger training program, educational outreach to landowners and the public, and developing a Best Management Practices (BMP) monitoring system for measuring success. More than 7,000 individuals have participated in the logger program over the last 20 years, with approximately 700 maintaining a current training status each year and some loggers having completed more than 100 hours of total training. The benefits of the training program were further recognized and bolstered when the Bureau of Forestry adopted a policy in 2007 that required all commercial timber harvesting activities on the state’s 2.2 million acres of forest lands be led by an SFI trained logger. More recently, the Pennsylvania Game Commission has also recognized the benefits of the training program and encourages its loggers to also participate. If you have any questions regarding this important resolution, please contact Nathan Akers in my office at 787-9684 or nakers@pasen.gov. |
Introduced as SR144