[MPWG] Asheville Conference on Our Forests and Products Other than Trees!

[Jeanine Davis]

Please help spread the word about this unique conference that is coming up
really soon in Asheville, NC.  It is the 21st annual SAMAB Conference, i.e.,
the Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere Conference.  I have never
attended this conference before because it always seemed to be geared toward
the Forest Service, timber issues, the effect of climate on the forest, etc.
Interesting, but not really the areas I'm working in.  This year the
organizers asked me to be on the program committee and help them design a
conference with an emphasis on special forest products, wild-harvesting
issues, forest medicinals, etc.  Right up my alley!  So.

We have a great conference planned!  On Tuesday, Nov. 15th there will be a
full afternoon panel and audience discussion on sustainable wild-harvesting.
Panel members include two well-known herb buyers, a botanist, an
ethnobotanist, and yours truly.  On Wednesday and Thursday I will moderate
sessions on Special Forest Products.  Issues covered will include
cultivating medicinal herbs in the forest, mushroom growing and marketing,
ramps, sustainable black cohosh harvesting, maple syrup production in the
South, making money from kudzu, genetic variations in native goldenseal
populations, what augmenting natural medicinal plant populations does, and
more.

I'm excited about the conference, but we don't have a whole bunch of people
signed up.  In some ways that it good, because those there will get a real
intimate experience.  But I hate to think of all the folks who are going to
contact me afterwards and say, hey, why didn't you tell me about this
conference?
So, here's the link.  Look it over.  Note, the program has changed a little;
most notably the conference will end at 4:00 on Thursday.  Spread the word,
sign up yourself, and I hope to see you there.  Here's the link:

http://www.samab.org/site/conference-schedules/2011-fall-conference/

Jeanine

Jeanine M. Davis, Ph.D. 
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