<div><span class="pageheadline" style="margin:0px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:large;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(50,70,116)">On World Environment Day and Every Day, the Stress of Being Ginseng</span><br style="color:rgb(50,70,116);font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px">
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</p><p style="color:rgb(50,70,116);font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px"><strong>Common medicinal plant of deciduous forests under siege</strong></p></div><div><br></div><div><strong style="color:rgb(50,70,116);font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px">June 5, 2013</strong></div>
<div><p style="color:rgb(50,70,116);font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px"><em>This article is the sixth in a series on NSF's Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) awards. Visit parts </em><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=122786&org=NSF" style="color:rgb(127,76,138);border:0px;outline:none"><em>one</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=124767&org=NSF" style="color:rgb(127,76,138);border:0px;outline:none"><em>two</em></a><em>,</em><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=124995&org=NSF" style="color:rgb(127,76,138);border:0px;outline:none"><em>three</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=125194&org=NSF" style="color:rgb(127,76,138);border:0px;outline:none"><em>four</em></a>, <em>and </em><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?preview=y&cntn_id=126853" title="Yeloowstone Ecosystem needs wolves and willows, elk and beavers" style="color:rgb(127,76,138);border:0px;outline:none"><em>five</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<blockquote style="color:rgb(50,70,116);font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px"><p>We entered a vale at 5 o'clock, then crossed a run and rode along a rich level for several miles, and under the delightful protection of very tall trees that brought us to a creek...where we lodged surrounded by ginseng.</p>
</blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(50,70,116);font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px"><p><em>--</em>John Bartram, 1751, <em>Travels from Pensilvania to Onandaga, Oswego and Lake Ontario in Canada</em></p></blockquote><p style="color:rgb(50,70,116);font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px">
Being surrounded by ginseng--a low-growing green-leafed herb of North American forests--may have been common in 1751, but today? Ginseng is under siege.</p></div><div>Full article:</div><div><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=128122&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click">http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=128122&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click</a></div>
<br clear="all"><div><div>For more on World Environment Day (WED), see: <a href="http://www.unep.org/wed/about/">http://www.unep.org/wed/about/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.</div>
<div>Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority-US Fish & Wildlife Service-International Affairs</div><div>Chair, Medicinal Plant Working Group-Plant Conservation Alliance</div><div>4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 110</div>
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