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<p>The only recourse we would have had in Ontario - was to have had the wild
simulated growers on a program like our GACPs.. This along with your help would
have proven that they were legit. And OMNR was looking at that as an option
but hindsight - sigh.</p>
<p>You are dead on - on the effect of the ban... There are good people out there
that have been put in an impossible situation. We need to learn from this.</p>
<p>Connie</p>
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<p><br><br><br>On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 14:38:52 +0000, Robert Layton Beyfuss
<rlb14@cornell.edu> wrote:<br></p>
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<p>Dear Connie</p>
<p>Thank you for posting. This is a classic example of what harm can occur when
good intentions are not thought out. When Ontario abruptly decided to ban all
ginseng harvest, I was immediately contacted by a number of woodland growers
whom I had worked with for years, either consulting or selling seed. They
immediately found themselves unable to sell their roots. I wrote letters telling
the authorities that these folks were bona fide growers and could prove they had
purchased seed and had grown their woodland ginseng. Indeed I had visited some
of these growers and had inspected their beds. I was told that since wild
simulated and truly wild ginseng were visually indistinguishable, what was to
stop the growers from secretly buying truly wild ginseng and mixing it with
their wild simulated? </p>
<p>The intention of the ban was to protect wild ginseng, but in reality, the
exact opposite occurred. The black market and the unscrupulous poachers who
support it continued to dig and sell the wild roots. As everyone knows, all
the regulations regarding wild ginseng harvest are impossible to enforce
and our border is easy to cross. The growers mostly gave up trying to grow it,
since they had no legal market and the status of wild ginseng in Ontario went
from scarce to extinct in many of its historical locations. Ginseng is far worse
off in Ontario as a result of this well intentioned, but poorly thought out
regulation. It is astonishing to me that regulators seem to think that by
passing a ban, that a ban will actually occur. The only result was to create
many new "criminals" who previously were honest people. When people are faced
with a regulation that makes no sense and cannot be enforced, it only serves to
breed contempt for all regulations. Here in NY we have had buyers openly
advertising in local newspapers that they are buying wild ginseng up to a month
before the season opens . A simple perusal of Ebay shows diggers offering
freshly dug, wild NY ginseng 3 weeks before the season opens. Numerous reports
of this misbehavior to both state in federal authorities by at least a dozen
individuals, whom I know personally, has had no effect. No one has been
prosecuted. </p>
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face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> MPWG [mpwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org] on
behalf of Connie Kehler [shsa@sasktel.net]<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 09,
2013 10:03 AM<br><b>To:</b> Susan; Jeanine Davis; MoonBranch
Botanicals<br><b>Cc:</b> mpwg<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [MPWG] ginseng in the
news<br></font><br></div>
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<p>On the issue of overharvesting of wild ginseng. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>We in Canada have had an over reaction in Ontario. Many and in my humble
opinion most of the wild ginseng in Ontario and much of Quebec has been planted
by traditional pickers - not actual wild ginseng. There is also growers that
plant ginseng in the wild and then harvest their own root that they have planted
up to 10 years later. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>The issue is can they prove it is theirs not true wild ginseng. In Quebec
wild ginseng growers have documented their plantings and informed the
authorities so they can prove ownership. Ontario was not so organized and thus
when the Ontario ministry of natural resourses decided to without consultation
make harvesting etc of ginseng illegal - both field planted ginseng and forest
planted ginseng became illegal.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Because Ontario field ginseng growers have an organization - they were able
to get an exempt. Wild planted ginseng growers were not so lucky. </p>
<p>We have and are working with both growers and governments to get practices in
place to ensure that if they plant ginseng in the wild they can still harvest
their own roots. </p>
<p>We have worked with CITES in Canada on ensuring that decisons about
endangered plants are based in fact. Not all wildcrafters rape and pilage.
Many are generational pickers that care for the the plants so their
grandchildren still have the resource. Unfortunately they often get clumped in
with those who do not take care. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Often the overharvest of plant are spurged by some overstated
overenthusiastic study that takes the highest price of the plant and multiply
that with the largest volumes to make it look like a fortune would be made by
simply wandering into the wild and picking plants for free. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>It is important to protect the plants and ensure they are not endangered but
we need to do so with thought ...... the facts are important and we must ensure
that this is the basis we work from - on all sides. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Connie Kehler</p>
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<p><br><br><br>On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 00:23:33 -0400 (GMT-04:00), MoonBranch
Botanicals <moonbranch@earthlink.net> wrote:<br></p>
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careful....<br><br><b>https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/11-2</b><br><br></font></font></font>
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solid;">-----Original Message----- <br>From: Susan
<susan@unitedplantsavers.org> <br>Sent: Sep 8, 2013 5:11 PM <br>To:
Jeanine Davis <jeanine_davis@ncsu.edu> <br>Cc: mpwg
<mpwg@lists.plantconservation.org> <br>Subject: Re: [MPWG] ginseng in the
news <br><br><div>Yes the time is now to speak up. <br><br>Sent from my
iPhone</div>
<div><br>On Sep 8, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Jeanine Davis <<a
href="mailto:Jeanine_Davis@ncsu.edu"
target="_blank">Jeanine_Davis@ncsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div>
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<p dir="ltr">Oh Randi, how dreadful...and now they want to frack in NC, too.
This all makes me so angry. I do think it is time for more of us scientists to
speak up.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jeanine</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jeanine Davis, Associate Professor & Extension
Specialist<br>Dept. of Horticultural Science, NC State University<br>website: <a
href="http://ncherb.org" target="_blank">ncherb.org</a><br>Sent from my
Droid</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 8, 2013 3:19 PM, "Randi Pokladnik" <<a
href="mailto:randi@clover.net" target="_blank">randi@clover.net</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote"
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Hi folks!</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">I did my dissertation on poaching
in 2008 and it is an issue in Ohio. I am worried now because we have out of
state people swarming the area fracking! If the frack pads themselves and out of
state vehicles (carrying invasives back and forth) are not bad enough, we have
invasive people so to speak, crossing properties without any thought to privacy
issues. We had one lady find dynamite charges set up on her land in Belmont
county Ohio... she was going to build a house and took a walk around, the
company claims it was all a big mistake but beware, I see fracking trucks
withdrawing water illegally from hidden areas as well as the local MWCD lakes.
This is so ridiculous! And then the earth quakes as well as spent frack fluid
being poured out in wooded regions.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">The medicinals seem to be off the
radar as far as ODNR is concerned when it comes to getting out that natural
gas.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Randi
Pokladnik</font></span></div>
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Message-----<br><b>From:</b> MPWG [mailto:<a
href="mailto:mpwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org"
target="_blank">mpwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Jeannie Dunn<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 06, 2013 9:05
AM<br><b>To:</b> Colin Donohue<br><b>Cc:</b> mpwg<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [MPWG]
ginseng in the news<br><br></font></div>Colin and Jeanine,
<div><br></div>
<div>Thanks for all you have just put out there. Agreed.
<div>I really believe WNC residential and commercial development and periodic
forest service/DOT maintenance probably do more damage to annihilate our herbal
medicines in the area, more than poachers ever will.</div>
<div>I also think that we will still have ginseng in 10-20 years because the
old-timers and their generations who harvest know how to proliferate the species
as they harvest, scattering seeds and spreading roots.</div>
<div>It will be "wild cultivated" ginseng but it will still be considered wild.
I believe Robert Eidus is trying to bring attention to the industry and he has a
right to his opinion. I hope he's wrong and we can sustain our wild ginseng but
if more people are moving into western NC and the developments sprawl outwards,
we may not have much of a forest to grow it!</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Jeannie Dunn</div>
<div>
<div>Red Moon Herbs</div>
<div><a href="tel:828-301-3010" target="_blank"
value="+18283013010">828-301-3010</a></div></div>
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<div>Absolutely.<br><br>That would be great. I regret I'm not in the role I once
was, but this issue is still dear to my heart. <br><br>A meeting of the minds,
and forging of common strategies and efforts could be a great thing in both
stewarding 'sang in the wild and supporting lifeways of the responsible ginseng
stewards and harvesters out there. <br><br>C<br><br><br>On 9/5/2013 8:23 PM,
Jeanine Davis wrote:<br></div>
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<p dir="ltr">On an open forum all I am willing to say is that I am not amused
and this story could have been more accurate and hopeful. We do need to
brainstorm on strategies to reduce poaching to conserve wild populations and
encourage more wild simulated production. I have some ideas, that are built on
consumer demand and pressure.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jeanine</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jeanine Davis, Associate Professor & Extension
Specialist<br>Dept. of Horticultural Science, NC State University<br>website: <a
href="http://ncherb.org" target="_blank">ncherb.org</a><br>Sent from my
Droid</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 5, 2013 7:46 PM, "Michael McGuffin" <<a
href="mailto:MMcguffin@ahpa.org" target="_blank">MMcguffin@ahpa.org</a>>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" _mce_style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
Re: [MPWG] ginseng in the news</span></font></p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;">This is great, other than
being wrong. <br><br>I'm amused to see Robert Eidus as the spokesperson for the
survivability of Ginseng. It will be gone in 10-20 years? That's idiotic.
<br><br>I'm sure Mr. Eidus didn't mean what he was cast as saying on the clip,
but it's still incorrect information. <br><br><br>I'm very disappointed to see
UPS trumpeting this incorrect and sensationalized clip. <br><br>Yes, there are
issues with ginseng harvest, and I'd be the first to shout from the mountaintop
that poaching is a real issue that needs attention, and that more resources
should go into plant conservation. But putting incorrect information out to spur
public concern is disingenuous. <br><br>Colin<br><br>On 9/5/2013 5:15 PM, Susan
Leopold wrote:</span></font></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;">United Plant Savers has
started a <a href="http://change.org" target="_blank">change.org</a> letter to
bring awareness to our members and the public and to show various agencies that
the public cares and supports ginseng conservation
efforts....</span></font></p></div>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" _mce_style="font-size: 12pt;">Below is a link to the CBS
story and to our <a href="http://change.org" target="_blank">change.org</a>
letter, also you can go to the UpS website <a
href="http://www.unitedplantsavers.org"
target="_blank">www.unitedplantsavers.org</a> for links to several recent news
articles and ginseng recently published research.</span></font></p></div>
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