ABSTRACT
Certification by the Forest Stewardship Council is totally voluntary on the part of the evaluee and the assessment is done by a certifier who is accredited through the Forest Stewardship Council. The voluntary nature of the forest certification is the strength of the program because feelings and values can neither be legislated nor regulated through legal means. Human feelings and values can, however, be taught and nurtured in a way that creates an intrinsic desire to do voluntarily what one feels to be morally correct within one’s own conscience for oneself and future generations.
