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The dramatic increase in commercial harvesting of nontimber forest products in the Pacific Northwest has coincided with the substantial decline in timber
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | harvesting of nontimber forest products in the Pacific Northwest has coincided with the substantial decline in timber harvesting from federal forests. The harvest of these products involves complex and interrelated social, economic, managerial, and biological issues (see Savage 1995; Molina et al. 1997). Although timber typically exceeds nontimber forest products in Value, opportunities exist to manage for both, to the benefit of different groups. Of nontimber products, the wild mushroom industry in the Pacific Northwest, estimated at $41.1 million in 1992, is second only to the $128.5 million harvest of floral greens (Schlosser and Blamer 1995). Excluding Truffles, the American matsutake (Tricholoma magnivelare) is the most valuable mushroom harvested in the Pacific Northwest because it is similar to the Japanese matsutake (T. matsutake), a mushroom highly prized and increasingly rare in Japan (Hosford et al. 1997). During the last decade, rapidly increasing numbers of transient mushroom harvesters have collected this mushroom from reliably productive habitats on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range in Southern Oregon. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pilz-mushroom.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
