Chain of custody

Our flooring was delivered yesterday and no, that's not all of it, just a few boards. We purchased pitch pine in variable width (between 8 and 12 inches in width) from Craftsman Lumber in Groton, Mass, which came with something LEED folks like: a chain of custody document. Essentially, a chain of custody proves who touched the wood since it was a tree... like a chain of evidence. In our case, our flooring came from a Nature Conservancy forest in Cocorua, NH that was being harvested for fire breaks and open habitats. Logging contractor LE Taylor and Sons conducted the harvesting, and sold the sawlogs to Home Grown Lumber of Center Conway, NH, who milled them. Craftsman Lumber, finally, planed and formed the tongue and groove.

LEED likes locally, responsibly harvested lumber. This chain of custody document not only proved this, but is also quite interesting all by itself. How many of us know where our trees came from?