<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</style></head><body id="compText">Amen Russ!<br><br>In my experience with the NC Forest Service in getting my Forest Stewardship Plan prepared a few years ago, they quite literally couldn't "see the forest for the trees". With few exceptions "professional" and agency foresters are trained to look at forest in terms of board feet. I suspect this results largely from our increasingly compartmentalized thinking society and institutions of higher learning.<br><br>I can't help but recount my experience my experience a few years ago with a "professional forester" from Georgia. I wanted to show him an exceptionally large serviceberry growing nearby. Upon approaching the large trunk of this tree, the forester promptly informed me that it was a "red maple". After debating the identity of the tree for a few minutes, I asked the forester to look up at which point I asked "have you ever seen a red maple covered with white blossoms?".<br><br>Perhaps if someone can validate the medicinal properties of "genetically improved" loblolly pine we can get the NC Forest Service on board...<br><br>-Robin<br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Patricia_DeAngelis@fws.gov
<br>Sent: Jun 5, 2009 12:42 PM
<br>To: mpwg@lists.plantconservation.org
<br>Subject: [MPWG] Fw: Maryland Sustainable Forestry Act & the implication for medicinal ...
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<br><font size="3" face="Arial">Wanted to share this (the first) response
from listserve member, Russ Richardson, who gives a perspective both on
the situation in WV and from the perspective of a forester in response
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<li><font size="3" face="Arial">In Maryland, do Forest Stewardship Plants
look beyond the trees and take medicinal plants and other NTFPs in account?
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</li><li><font size="3" face="Arial">Do any of you have material that provides
insight on the merits of including NTFPS in forest stewardship plans?</font>
</li><li><font size="3" face="Arial">What other states have similar Acts?<br>
</font></li></ul><font size="3" face="Arial">Please feel free to post additional
responses to the group.</font>
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<br><font size="3" face="Arial">Thanks,</font>
<br><font size="3" face="Arial">-Patricia</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.<br>
Botanist - Division of Scientific Authority<br>
Chair - Plant Conservation Alliance - Medicinal Plant Working Group<br>
US Fish & Wildlife Service<br>
4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 110<br>
Arlington, VA 22203<br>
703-358-1708 x1753<br>
FAX: 703-358-2276<br>
Working for the conservation and sustainable use of our green natural resources.<br>
<www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal><br>
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<br><font size="2" face="Arial">Patricia:</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="Arial">I prepare a large number of Forest Stewardship
Plans for West Virginia woodland owners every year. </font>
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<br><font size="2" face="Arial">Information related to NTFPs is not a required
part of the planning process but it is one consideration the property owners
can request as part of their plan preparation.</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">My own experience has shown that by interesting
woodland owners in the economic or ecological significance of some of the
understory plants it is often easier to get them to understand the implications
of proper harvest planning and invasive species impacts.</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">I think it is far more important for resource
professionals involved with the forest management planning process to be
able to identify unusual habitats or significant populations of commercially
or ecologically important understory plants. </font>
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<br><font size="2" face="Arial">Generally speaking forest management and
the forestry profession as a whole is way behind the curve of understanding
for all the facets of the NTFP issue.</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="Arial">Russ Richardson, CF</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">Crummies Creek Tree Farm</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">PO Box 207</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Arial">Arnoldsburg, WV 25234 </font>
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Robin Alton Suggs
MoonBranch Botanicals
5294 Yellow Creek Road
Robbinsville, North Carolina 28771
USA
Telephone: 828.479.2788
moonbranch@earthlink.net
www.moonbranch.com
Member:
American Herbalist Guild
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project; Farm Partner
Co-op America
Green Products Alliance
National Network of Forest Practitioners
North Carolina Consortium on Natural Medicines
North Carolina Goodness Grows/NCDA&CS
North Carolina Natural Products Association
Southwestern North Carolina RC&D Council
United Plant Savers
"Western civilization is based on the philosophical error that manipulative science is the truth"
~Fritjof Capra</pre>