Dive Summary:

• The popularity of LEED construction has had an unintended impact on Oregon’s logging industry.
• Loggers are beginning to resent LEED certification; only a small amount of the forests in Oregon have received approval to be used as LEED certified wood as regulated by the Forest Stewardship Council.
• Some involved in forestry argue that LEED should expand its certification standards, allowing more forests to fall into this category, opening the market up to more possibilities from a more diverse range of approved forests.

​​From the article:

…consider only FSC- and SFI-certified lands. Of the latter, Oregon has more than 3 million acres. Of the former – the LEED-preferred certification– the state has fewer than 138,000. New Hampshire has more.