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<font size=3>Why don't you try reading reputable research rather than
this rubbish. I could take apart most of the major claims but it
really isn't worth my time. For example, "specialty forest
products....were once a low class sideshow." Well, actually,
salal has been harvested on the Olympic Peninsula since the 1930s and has
been a big employer of many people, especially women who were
historically excluded from the few other types of available work in that
area like logging. Also, that statement is classist and urban
centric, but then so is most of the modern environmental movement.
It's much easier to rip on the poor and powerless and turn a blind eye to
the massive amounts of chemicals that are used on salal by private
industry. Or when they don't use chemicals they scoop it into the
slash piles and burn it along with the moss, ferns, and dozens of
medicinal plants. Harvesters are a spit in the bucket compared to
what the big timber companies are doing and will continue as long as the
people on this list continue to pretend that they are somehow saving
special forest products (aka nontimber forest products) from destruction
by stopping the harvest. Stop reading this poorly researched media
and try getting out in the woods and see what is really going on, you
might be shocked. Lastly, if you are really interested in
understanding the salal industry please write me for scientific
references.<br><br>
Eric T Jones, Ph.D.<br>
Ecological Anthropologist<br>
Institute for Culture and Ecology (501c3)<br>
Post Office Box 6688<br>
Portland, Oregon 97228-6688. USA<br>
Telephone: 503-331-6681<br>
E-Mail: etjones@ifcae.org<br>
Website:
<a href="http://www.ifcae.org/" eudora="autourl">www.ifcae.org</a>
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<div align="center">Specialty products harvested from Northwest forests
including moss, salal and slender stalks called beargrass once were a
low-class sideshow to logging, picked by rural folks in need of extra
bucks. It since has swelled to a mammoth industry that brings in at least
a quarter-billion dollars a year nearly one-fourth the size of the
apple industry.<br><br>
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This is an interesting article depicting the plight faced by some folks
<br>
who harvest non-timber forest products in the Pacific Northwest.
See the <br>
full story at: <br>
<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003042206_salal06m.html" eudora="autourl">
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003042206_salal06m.html</a>
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Note: <br>
>Salal is the common name for Gaultheria species, which is harvested
for <br>
the floral trade and also has medicinal applications.<br>
>Beargrass is the common name for species belonging to the genus
Nolina . <br>
Many species in this genus, which have been traditionally used by Native
<br>
American as food, medicine and in basketry, continue to be harvested for
<br>
those purposes as well as for the floral industry.<br><br>
A war in the woods<br>
By Craig Welch<br>
Seattle Times staff reporter<br><br>
MATLOCK, Mason County <br>
Son Chau and his wife were all alone and deep in
the woods when a man <br>
shoved a pistol into their truck and said he was taking it all: 20,000
<br>
stems of a shrub called salal. <br>
Chau had spent the day as he spends most,
snipping woody stems with <br>
shiny oval leaves from the forest. Any other day, he would have driven
the <br>
plants to Shelton to be shipped to vast open-air flower markets in the
<br>
Netherlands.<br>
But that afternoon four years ago, Chau watched
helplessly as bandits <br>
loaded his day's labor into a minivan and drove off, making him another
<br>
casualty in what has become a war in the woods.<br>
Specialty products harvested from Northwest
forests ? including moss, <br>
salal and slender stalks called beargrass ? once were a low-class
sideshow <br>
to logging, picked by rural folks in need of extra bucks. It since has
<br>
swelled to a mammoth industry that brings in at least a quarter-billion
<br>
dollars a year ? nearly one-fourth the size of the apple
industry.<br><br>
Full story at: <br>
<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003042206_salal06m.html" eudora="autourl">
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003042206_salal06m.html</a>
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