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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As a scientist who cares very much about ginseng, I DO want to speak up.
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">FYI, Susan and I have been working together to try to obtain funding to enlist interested parties to develop seed banks containing
plants to conserve the genetic diversity and the regional genetic integrity of wild ginseng populations. As per Susan’s letter to request support of the federal government, plants in the seed bank would serve as seed sources for restoration of
<b>local</b> populations with <b>locally </b>derived seed. The attached paper by Schlag and McIntosh (2012) (this is not the paper on the UpS website) demonstrates that DNA markers can be used to identify the region of origin of ginseng plants. In fact, we
were able to identify plants in a wild population that were almost certainly grown from non-local seed. In the paper’s conclusion, we recommended creating regional seed banks and suggested an approach to create the seed banks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The e-mails about the unintended consequences of banning wild harvest are VERY timely. Maryland, DNR has recently banned wild
ginseng harvest from state lands. Next week, I will be participating in a teleconference regarding this ban and will send Connie and Bob’s e-mails to become a point for discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dr. Marla S. McIntosh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Professor of Plant Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">University of Maryland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">College Park, Maryland 20742<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">mmcintos@umd.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> MPWG [mailto:mpwg-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Connie Kehler<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 09, 2013 9:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Susan; Jeanine Davis; MoonBranch Botanicals; Robert Layton Beyfuss<br>
<b>Cc:</b> mpwg<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [MPWG] ginseng in the news<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Thanks Robert<o:p></o:p></p>
<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.<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Connie<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 14:38:52 +0000, Robert Layton Beyfuss <<a href="mailto:rlb14@cornell.edu">rlb14@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Dear Connie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">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?
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">On the issue of overharvesting of wild ginseng. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">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.
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<p><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Because Ontario field ginseng growers have an organization - they were able to get an exempt. Wild planted ginseng growers were not so lucky.
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<p><span style="color:black">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.
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<p><span style="color:black">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">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.
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<p><span style="color:black">Connie Kehler<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 00:23:33 -0400 (GMT-04:00), MoonBranch Botanicals <<a href="mailto:moonbranch@earthlink.net">moonbranch@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">-----Original Message-----
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From: Susan <<a href="mailto:susan@unitedplantsavers.org">susan@unitedplantsavers.org</a>>
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Sent: Sep 8, 2013 5:11 PM <br>
To: Jeanine Davis <<a href="mailto:jeanine_davis@ncsu.edu">jeanine_davis@ncsu.edu</a>>
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Cc: mpwg <<a href="mailto:mpwg@lists.plantconservation.org">mpwg@lists.plantconservation.org</a>>
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Subject: Re: [MPWG] ginseng in the news <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Yes the time is now to speak up. <br>
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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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Jeanine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">On Sep 8, 2013 3:19 PM, "Randi Pokladnik" <<a href="mailto:randi@clover.net" target="_blank">randi@clover.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">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.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Colin and Jeanine, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thanks for all you have just put out there. Agreed.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">On Sep 5, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Colin Donohue wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Absolutely.<br>
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That would be great. I regret I'm not in the role I once was, but this issue is still dear to my heart.
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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.
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<p><span style="color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">Jeanine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black">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>
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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.
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I'm very disappointed to see UPS trumpeting this incorrect and sensationalized clip.
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