Marla R Emery, Rebecca J Mclain

Non-Timber Forest Products

Medicinal Herbs, Fungi, Edible Fruits and Nuts, and Other Natural Products from the Forest

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive book documents the current use, research, and policy concerns relating to harvesting non-timber forest products (NTFPs). It provides a state-of-the-art review of historical and contemporary wildcrafting, ongoing research on economically useful forest products, and sociopolitical and environmental considerations for NTFP management. The implications of harvesting NTFPs are usually considered in the context of the Third World, but this unique book offers an analysis of current conditions in North America and integrates the historical, social, ecological, and policy aspects of NTFP use. Herb CatalogCopy Goldenseal, black cohosh, slippery elm, ginseng, Echinacea: these essential healing plants are often wildcrafted. But what are the implications when the primeval practice of gathering wild herbs, plants, fungi, leaves, and bark occurs in a post-industrial world? Non-Timber Forest Products: Medicinal Herbs, Fungi, Edible Fruits and Nuts, and Other Natural Products from the Forest provides a unique analysis of the laws, sociocultural factors, competing political and economic interests, and environmental issues related to wildcrafting. It is an essential resource for socially responsible herbalists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781560220893
• ISBN-10: 1560220899
• Artikelnr.: 21123328

Autorenporträt

Marla R Emery, Rebecca J Mclain

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Section I: Non-Timber Forest Products, Past and Present;
International Non-Timber Forest Product Issues; Brief Overview of
Historical Non-Timber Forest Product Use in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and
Upper Midwest; Aboriginal Use of Non-Timber Forest Products in Northwestern
North America: Applications and Issues; An Overview of Non-Timber Forest
Products in the United States Today; Non-Timber Forest Products in Local
Economies: The Case of Mason County, Washington; Section II: Research on
Non-Timber Forest Products in the Pacific Northwest; Research in Non-Timber
Forest Products: Contributions of the USDA Forest Service, Pacific
Northwest Research Station; Productivity and Sustainable Harvest of Edible
Forest Mushrooms: Current Biological Research and New Directions in Federal
Monitoring; Socio-Economic Research on Non-Timber Forest Products in the
Pacific Northwest; Section III: Socio-Political Considerations for
Non-Timber Forest Product Management; Why Is Non-Timber Forest Product
Harvesting an Issue? Excluding Local Knowledge and the Paradigm Crisis of
Temperate Foresty; Who Knows? Local Non-Timber Forest Product Knowledge and
Stewardship Practices in Northern Michigan; Recent Trends: Non-Timber
Forest Product Pickers in the Pacific Northwest; Expanding Non-Timber
Forest Product Harvester/Buyer Participation in Pacific Northwest Forest
Policy; Synthesis and Future Directions for Non-Timber Forest Product
Research in the United States