Green Horizons

This Web-based service allows subscribers to access the ATFS database to confirm the certification status of ATFS certified properties. Begun in anticipation of SFI® audit and chain-of-custody verification needs, ATFS has created a real-time, Web-based system that will allow subscribers to look up more than 39,000 individual properties covering 23 million acres and verify their ATFS certification status.

The system is designed so that users may log in with an ATFS-issued password, enter specific data about the tract in question and then receive a real-time reply regarding its certification status (i.e., Certified, Not Certified, Not In The System).

Fees are based on annual, unlimited use for each facility and its own individual network of wood procurement and verification. One subscription for a single mill is $500/year; additional mills owned by the same entity will be an additional $500/year per mill, up to three mills. For companies wishing to subscribe for more than three mills, there is a flat fee of $1,500/year. Wood buyers and consulting firms may purchase a single subscription for $400/year.

Upon receipt of the fee, subscribers will be given password access to the on-line verification system (OVS). The password can be shared by the subscriber to appropriate verifiers within the facility’s procurement network. However, supporting facility procurement entities such as wood buyers and other extra-company wood consolidation entities will need to subscribe separately.

Fees are assessed yearly on the date the contract was signed by the subscriber. Passwords expire at year’s end and companies must renew to continue to use the OVS. Invoicing will occur during the last half of the third quarter, giving subscribers appropriate time to submit the upcoming year’s fee and have their subscription extended.

For further information or to learn how your organization can subscribe, please contact Victoria Lockhart, ATFS, (202) 463-2738 or e-mail her at vlockhart@fore stfoundation.org.