Past and Ongoing CFS projects include:

• Undertaking a National Pilot Project to facilitate Group Certification of private forests in Ireland
• Developing the Template Master Tree Sales Agreement for ITGA
• The development of the ITGA Timber Sales Dispatch System for timber growers
• Project management of the annual Forestry & Timber Yearbook which is now in its 32nd edition and which is the recognised industry reference source for information, statistics and the industry Directory.
• Compiling, editing and managing the production of ITGA Newsletters.
• Managing the content of www.forestry.ie, www.forestryyearbook.ie and www.itga.ie
  
  

Commercial Forestry Services recently led an international consortium of partners in undertaking a group forest certification project which resulted in doubling the number of internationally recognised forest management certificates in Ireland.
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with responsibility for forestry, Andrew Doyle, TD congratulated the North East Forestry Certification Club and the Forest Owners Co-operative Society, at a function in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, on achieving group certification. Pictured at the presentation of the group certificates were (first row from left to right) Aine Woods, Martin Barrett (NEFCC), Martin Oakes (NEFCC), John Sherlock (NEFCC), Mechteld Schuller (Commercial Forestry Services), Minister of State Andrew Doyle TD, Phil Webb (UKFCG), Paul Sandys (UKFCG), Tim McCarthy (FOCS), John Casey (Teagasc), Patrick Barrett (DAFM), Linda Coghlan (The Forestry Company). (second row from left to right) John Woods (NEFCC), John Roche (The Forestry Company), Hugh McMahon (NEFCC), Gerard Sheridan (NEFCC), Brian White (NEFCC), Donal Whelan (Commercial Forestry Services), Joseph Kilmartin (NEFCC), Andy Grundy (Soil Association Certification), Des Drew (NEFCC), Peter Farrelly (NEFCC), William Melville (FOCS), Michael Greany (FOCS) and Albert Kelly (FOCS)