Supplier Campaigns
Bowater: The largest newsprint manufacturer and the largest forestland owner on the Cumberland Plateau; now AbitibiBowater, committed in June 2005 to improve their forest management practices after a campaign launched in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The Bowater/NRDC/Dogwood Agreements includes commitments to: · End conversion of natural hardwood forests to pine plantations on all the land it owns in the United States within three years. (AbitibiBowater owns approximately 380,000 acres (1,500 km2) of forestland in the Southeastern U.S.; approximately 100,000 acres (400 km2) are native hardwood forests in the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee) · Stop buying pine fiber converted from natural forestland to pine plantations after 2007 from third-party landowners. · Use the FSC Southeast standard for hardwood management requiring variable age retention harvesting systems and other practices that eliminate the clearing of natural forests; · Collaborate on a mapping study approximately 7,000 acres (28 km2) of particularly sensitive areas (known as ‘gulfs and coves’) on all of AbitibiBowater’s land on the Cumberland Plateau, and work to protect these lands once identified; · Adopt a moratorium on the logging or selling of gulfs and coves while the study is underway; · Identify and protect the biologically important ephemeral ponds on AbitibiBowater’s land; · Adopt a 300-foot (91 m) buffer for any spraying of both herbicides and fertilizers around communities and the potentially sensitive sub-group populations, including schools, daycare centers, hospitals, homes and bodies of water; · Switch its application of aerial spraying to helicopters equipped with GIS tracking technologies instead of fixed winged planes, to provide better application control; · Work toward identifying ways to increase its use of post-consumer recycled fiber, in lieu of virgin fiber, in its products.
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