The people behind LandTrace.
Forest certification lead auditors and a remote-sensing scientist with decades in US forests and wood supply chains. We wrote the procedure, we run it, and a qualified forester signs every exception.
Dave Wager
Dave has led forest certification audits for more than 25 years. From 2000 to 2010 he directed forest management certification at Scientific Certification Systems, and he helped develop Starbucks C.A.F.E. Practices for sustainable coffee sourcing. A NASA Graduate Research Fellow in remote sensing and a dendrochronologist, he founded LandPulse, a forest intelligence platform built on 40 years of satellite and aerial imagery, and designed the LandTrace verification method.
LinkedIn →
Kyle Meister
Kyle is a contract forestry, biomass and certification auditor. He spent 16 years at SCS Global Services as a senior certification forester and senior auditor, and is a lead auditor for FSC, PEFC and SFI forest management, chain of custody and Controlled Wood, the Sustainable Biomass Program, RSPO supply chain and SCS LegalHarvest. He has trained auditors in more than 10 countries and works in English, Spanish and Portuguese. He trained in forestry at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
LinkedIn →
Chris Gibbons
Chris has led American Green Consulting Group since 2011, handling FSC, PEFC and SFI certification for forest products companies across North America. The firm manages the Small Business Certification Network, one of the largest FSC chain of custody certificates in the US, and runs multisite internal audits for large companies in the US and Canada. Before that, Chris coordinated chain of custody certification at Rainforest Alliance. He studied at Michigan State University.
LinkedIn →