[MPWG] U.S. Nontimber Forest Product Species Database Updated

[Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov]

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                      Eric T Jones                                                                                                    
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                                               Subject: U.S. Nontimber Forest Product Species Database Updated                        
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                               Announcement:
          U.S. Nontimber Forest Product Species Database Updated
                            www.ifcae.org/ntfp/

With funding from the National Commission on Science for Sustainable
Forestry, 490 new entries have been added to the Institute for Culture and
Ecology's free web database on nontimber forest product species.  This
brings the total number of entries to 1,343 commercially harvested species
in the United States.  Land managers and other stakeholders can use the
database to help identify NTFP species occurring in their region, their
general use, and part of the plant used.  The new entries included edible,
medicinal, and decorative fungal species, lichens, additional vascular
plants, mosses, liverworts, and ferns known to be currently or formerly
commercially harvested in the United States.  Information to existing
entries was added or altered where relevant new information emerged or
where errors were discovered in the original data. As a result of the new
work, the database is less geographically biased, and includes
approximately 95% (to the level of genus) of the most important NTFP
organisms in the mainland United States.  The updates were done by David
Pilz.  Pre-update entries were provided by James Weigand and funded by the
USDA Forest Service Forest Sciences Lab in Portland, OR.

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