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This resolution designates December 17, 2025, as "Sustainable Forestry Initiative Day" in Pennsylvania to recognize the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and its Pennsylvania Implementation Committee's three decades of work in forest sustainability. The resolution highlights Pennsylvania's 17 million acres of forestland and the forest products industry's significant economic impact, and explains how the SFI was launched in 1995 to address growing concerns about forest management practices. It acknowledges the Pennsylvania SFI Implementation Committee's (PA SIC) achievements, including training over 8,000 loggers, foresters, and landowners through its Professional Timber Harvester Training Program and developing resources to encourage responsible forestry. The resolution commends the SFI as a voluntary, science-based program that promotes environmental stewardship, economic opportunity, and education in the forest sector, and urges continued cooperation among forest landowners, industry partners, educators, conservationists, and public agencies to support sustainable forestry principles throughout the state.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/hr378