Now that Sustainable Forestry is gaining momentum it's time to put a more formal, understandable structural plan in place. The foundation needs to be a simple set of metrics that is universal in nature. While the current sustainable forestry programs are a great start they need to be more hard coded. If you read through these standards the more you try to truly comprehend the more they go in circles and become somewhat ambiguous at a low level. They become very difficut to enforce on the ground.
Here is one example of what I mean, what is to stop of from bar-coding every tree harvested, having a central database and having that bar-code tracking the wood or paper product throughout its life-cycle. Let's call it TREEnet for now. This is direct and to the point, difficult yes, challenging yes, but the technology exists. It can be done right in the forest with a hand held scanner!
Quantifiable, traceable and measurable.
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