Total Certified Acres
- Total (All ownerships) 8,483,153 acres
- Public (FSC or SFI) 7,502,094 acres
- Private (FSC/SFI/PEFC) 927,059 acres
- Dual (All ownerships) 5,659,817 acres
FSC® Certified Acres
- All Ownerships 6,855,494 acres
- Public: DNR 4,960,177 acres 1, 2
- Public: County 1,627,667 acres 3
- Private: Industry 252,217 acres
- Private: Non-Industry 15,433 acres
SFI® Certified Acres
- All Ownerships 7,287,476 acres
- Public: DNR 4,979,253 acres 2
- Public: County 1,594,814 acres
- Private: Industry 488,340 acres
- Private: Non-Industry 215,976 acres
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* Forest Stewardship Council (FSC); Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI); Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC)
1 Minnesota DNR's FSC Trademark License Code: FSC-C020394. Minnesota DNR's FSC Certificate Code: SCS-FM/COC-00088N
2 As of 12/31/10, 81,673 acres of USFWS-owned Land Utilization Project (LUP) lands managed by DNR are dual Certified. 19,076 acres of agricultural leases and cooperative forestry agreements are SFI Certified only, thus accounting for the difference between DNR's certificates.
3 The Minnesota Counties Sustainable Forest Cooperative (MCSFC), is a group certificate including the 5 counties listed above. MCSFC was awarded its SFI certificate in 2008 and its FSC certificate on November 1, 2009.
4 The American Tree Farm System (ATFS) was awarded PEFC recognition on August 7, 2008. There are 1,687 Certified Tree Farmers in MN
with a total of 225,069 acres. Due to privacy rights, there is no geo-spatial data available for this acreage. ATFS fiber is recognized by and
tracked through the SFI Chain-of-Custody system. Please contact Tom Witkowski tomforester@charter.net for more info.
Data Sources: Data primarily obtained directly from certificate holders. Total acres may not correspond to those listed on the FSC-US &
SFI websites. In some cases, total acres include both productive & non-productive forestland, as well as non-forested acres.
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