Family Values: FSC® Certification Validates
Generations of Sound Forest Stewardship

Anderson-Tully Worldwide is the sales and marketing agent for two companies with a combined total of approximately 500,000 acres of timberland certified in accordance to the Forest Stewardship Council™ standards.

Anderson-Tully Lumber Company earned FSC certification in 2000, and Louisiana Hardwood Products, formerly the hardwood division of RoyOMartin Company, received FSC certification in 2002. Both companies also hold FSC chain-of-custody certification of their manufacturing operations. Based in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Anderson-Tully Lumber Company operates one of the largest hardwood sawmill complexes in North America and is the largest producer of hardwoods holding FSC certification in the United States.

The FSC is an international non-profit organization founded in 1993. To be certified in accordance to their standards, a forest operation must be audited by an accredited, independent, third-party organization to determine whether that operation meets the internationally agreed-upon FSC Principles and Criteria. The Rainforest Alliance SmartWood Program, an independent FSC-accredited certifier, conducted the audits of both Anderson-Tully Lumber Company and Louisiana Hardwood Products. SmartWood is a program of the Rainforest Alliance. The Rainforest Alliance pioneered the concept of responsible forest certification in 1989 and has since certified to FSC standards more than 63 million hectares (155 million acres) in more than 65 countries around the world.

As the parent company of Anderson-Tully Lumber Company and Louisiana Hardwood Products, The Forestland Group named Anderson-Tully Worldwide as exclusive sales and marketing agent for the two because of its innovation and leadership in developing markets for FSC certified hardwoods and its skill in marketing alternative hardwood species. The Forestland Group of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was the first timberland investment management organization in the world to earn FSC certification of its entire portfolio, which stretches into 20 states, Canada and Central America.