<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">United Plant Savers would like to share with the MPWG the recent published article in Ethnobiology Letters, see abstract and link below for full article. I welcome all feedback and comments in regards to this article to be sent to <a href="mailto:susan@unitedplantsavers.org">susan@unitedplantsavers.org</a>. We certainly hope that the tool and the article will further discussion of conservation in regards to medicinal plants. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We have a wonderful page set up on the tool to make it easy for folks to use on our new website for the United Plant Saver's Goldenseal Sanctuary.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.goldensealsanctuary.org/species-at-risk-assessment-tool">http://www.goldensealsanctuary.org/species-at-risk-assessment-tool</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">I want to acknowledge all those who have contributed to the development of this project over the years!</span></font></div><div><div id="articleTitle" style="text-align: left; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; "><h3 style="margin-top: 0em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0em; padding-top: 0.5em; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 26px; "><br></h3><h3 style="margin-top: 0em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0em; padding-top: 0.5em; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 26px; ">Ranking Tool Created for Medicinal Plants at Risk of Being Overharvested in the Wild</h3></div><div id="authorString" style="text-align: left; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; "><em>Lisa Marie Castle, Susan Leopold, Rachel Craft, Kelly Kindscher</em></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span><div id="articleAbstract" style="text-align: left; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; "><h4 style="margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0em; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.5em; ">Abstract</h4><br><div style="text-align: left; "><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">We developed an adaptable, transparent tool that can be used to quantify and compare vulnerability to overharvest for wild collected medicinal plants. Subsequently, we are creating a list of the most threatened medicinal plants in temperate North America. The new tool scores species according to their life history, the effects of harvest, their abundance and range, habitat, and demand. The resulting rankings, based on explicit criteria rather than expert opinion, will make it easier to discuss areas of vulnerability and set conservation priorities. Here we present scores for 40 species assessed using the At-Risk Tool and discuss the traits that led to different scores for six example species: echinacea (<em>Echinacea angustifolia</em> DC. Asteraceae), peyote (<em>Lophophora williamsii</em> (Lem. ex Salm-Dyck) J.M. Coult. Cactaceae), sandalwood (<em>Santalum</em> spp. L. Santalaceae), stinging nettle (<em>Urtica dioica </em>L. Urticaceae), American ginseng (<em>Panax quinquefolius</em> L. Araliaceae) and mayapple (<em>Podophyllum peltatum</em> L. Berberidaceae).</p></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><a href="http://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/169">http://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/169</a><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Susan Leopold, PhD</div><div>Executive Director, UpS</div><div>703-667-0208</div><div>susan@unitedplantsavers.org</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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