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By Steve D. Kruger, John F. Munsell, James L. Chamberlain, Jeanine M. Davis, and Ryan D. Huish</div>
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Forests 2020 11(1), 74</div>
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The volume, value and distribution of the nontimber forest product (NTFP) trade in the United States are largely unknown. This is due to the lack of systematic, periodic and comprehensive market tracking programs. Trade measurement and mapping would allow market
actors and stakeholders to improve market conditions, manage NTFP resources, and increase the sustainable production of raw material. This is especially true in the heavily forested and mountainous regions of the eastern United States. This study hypothesized
that the tendency to purchase medicinal NTFPs in this region can be predicted using socioeconomic and environmental variables associated with habitat and trade, and those same variables can be used to build more robust estimates of trade volume. American ginseng
(<span style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 1e+06px; font-style: italic">Panax quinquefolius</span><span> </span>L.) dealers were surveyed (n = 700), because by law they must acquire a license to legally trade in this species, and therefore report a
business address. They also record purchase data. Similar data are not reported for other medicinal species sold to the same buyers, known colloquially as ‘off-roots’. Ginseng buyers were queried about trade activity in eleven commonly-harvested and previously
untracked medicinal NTFP species in 15 states. Multinomial logistic regression comprised of socioeconomic and environmental predictors tied to business location was used to determine the probability that a respondent purchased off-roots. Significant predictors
included location in a particular subregion, population and percentage of employment in related industries. These variables were used in a two-step cluster analysis to group respondents and nonrespondents. Modeled probabilities for off-root purchasing among
respondents in each cluster were used to impute average off-root volumes for a proportion of nonrespondents in the same cluster. Respondent observations and nonrespondent estimations were summed and used to map off-root trade volume and value. Model functionality
and estimates of the total volume, value and spatial distribution are discussed. The total value of the species surveyed to harvesters was 4.3 million USD. We also find that 77 percent of the trade value and 73 percent of the trade volume were represented
by two species: black cohosh (<span style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 1e+06px; font-style: italic">Actaea racemosa</span><span> </span>L.) and goldenseal (<span style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: 1e+06px; font-style: italic">Hydrastis canadensis</span><span> </span>L.)</div>
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Link: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/11/1/74/htm</div>
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