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Growing American Ginseng on Forestland
American ginseng. Photo by Dan J. Pitillo, courtesy of US Fish and Wildlife Service. Science You Can Use Planting alternative crops such as American ginseng is increasingly popular among forest...
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Where’s the Ginseng?
Mature American ginseng plant with fruit. Photo by Gary Kauffman, U.S. Forest Service. Newly published research by the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) demonstrates that co-managing...
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Tracking Those Other Forest Products
Volunteer citizen scientist harvesting black cohosh for research study. Photo by Jim Chamberlain. Timber is certainly the best-known forest product, but since before the time of European settlement,...
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Ukrainians Learn About ‘Sang
Tetyana Troshyna, a private entrepreneur from Kyiv in central Ukraine, took part in the tour about non-timber forest products. Photo by U.S. Forest Service. “Here’s sang-find, also known as...
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American Ginseng, in the Forest and in the Marketplace
Indigenous people used wild American ginseng for many purposes. It is also used in Chinese medicine and has been exported since the mid-1700s. Illustration by Jacob Bigelow, courtesy of Wikimedia...
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Top Ten of 2020
As 2020 comes to an end, it is a good time to gather our most-read CompassLive stories from the past year. Each one highlights the work of USDA Forest Service scientists at the Southern Research...
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