Forestry

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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest Productsand
Recreation

• HORT/RGSC 302
• J.G. Mexal
• Spring 2002

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Christmas Tree Production
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Forestry Humor
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest Products

• Decoratives
• cork
• birch bark flats
• bark mulch
• pine straw/litter
• Chemicals
• resins
• naval stores
• insecticides (neem)
• Waste products
• walnut shells (tanning)

• Floral Greens
• ferns
• babys breath
• mosses
• Christmas Evergreen Boughs
• pine cones
• holly
• branches
• Understory Plants
• mushrooms
• medicinals

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Trees are Wedding Favors/Aug03
The GreenWorld Project, a division of Itasca
Greenhouse in Cohasset, will supply tree
seedlings as wedding favors
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest Products/
Quercus suber Cork oak
http//www.granorte.pt/cork_oak.htm
Schery 1952
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest Products
http//www.dicknsons.com/corkhist.htm
http//www.beyond.fr/flora/oakcork.html
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest Products
http//www.jelinek.com/cork.htm
http//www.corkmasters.com/facts/bark-to-bottle.st
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest Products

• 17 billion bottles of wine produced each year
• 9 synthetic
• 12 of corks contaminated with fungus that
  produces
• 2,4,6-trichloroanisole, or TCA

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Non-timber Forest Products/ Alexander et al. 2002

• Christmas trees and greens 500/ton
• Bear grass 0.43/bunch
• Huckelberry 0.73/bunch
• Salal 1.06/bunch
• Scotch broom 0.51/bunch
• Sword fern 0.64/bunch
• Moss 0.37/lb

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Non-timber Forest Products/ Alexander et al. 2002

• Medicinal Plants
• Saw palmetto berries (55/lb)
• Wild mushrooms-
• Boletus 5.69
• Chanterelles 3.26
• Morels 5.04
• American matsutake 14.08

WA, OR, ID wild mushroom value
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Edible mushrooms in the NW/ Pilz Molina
ForEcolMgt 15532002
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Products/Matsutake
mushrooms J.For. 974-111999
FS Income ()
Permits (no)
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Yield (lb/ac)
8
3
FS Income ()
1
Permits (no)
10,000
5,000
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Products/edible
mushrooms Science Findings 28/oct00

• In 1992
• morels 1.3 million lbs
• chanterelles 1.1 million lbs
• matsutake 0.8 million lbs from ID,OR,WA

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Mushroom Harvesting in Mexico/Ciencia Forestal
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Products/edible
mushrooms J.For. 974-111999
Tricholoma magnivelare - Matsutake
Morchella elata - morels
Chantharellus cibarius - chanterelles
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Thinning vs mushroom production-OR/ Pilz et al.
JFor104(1)906
Chanterelles (lb/ac)
Chanterelles (lb/ac)
Thinned in 96
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest
Products/Missouri

• Product
• Witch hazel
• Purple cone flower
• Black walnut hulls
• Genseng
• Goldenseal
• May apple
• Slippery elm

• Demand (lbs)
• gt110,000
• 65,000
• gt200,000
• 230,000
• 275,000
• 220,000
• 200,000

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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest
Products/Pacific NW
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest Products-NE

• Maple Syrup (Acer saccharum)
• 30 KK/yr (1.36 KK gal)
• Top States
• Vermont (1 40)
• Maine
• New York
• Massachusetts (9th 50 K gal)
• 40 gal (_at_1 sugar) will make 1 gal syrup
• 28 gal(_at_3.2 sugar) will make 1 gal

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Forestry SocietySpecialty Products/Peru
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Extract the value of the tree before cutting it
down/Ciencia Forestal
Rubber Extraction
Resin Collection
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Products/Naval
Stores- Schultz 1997
Oleoresin ()
Height above Wound
Paraquat
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Western Red Cedar/ Thuja plicata
Greg Gilbert
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest
Products-Chile, Canada
Peat Moss - Chile
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest Products-
Silkworm moth w/ cocoon/ feeds on mulberry
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest Products- So.
Pine needles
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Forest
Products-biomass
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Recreation or Ecotourism/Ciencia Forestal
Neotropical Parrots
Monarch Butterfly
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Forestry SocietyRecreation Visitor Days (RVDs)
by Agency/ USDA FS Ecosystem Management 1993
Ann. Rep
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288
192
566KK RVDs
116
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Forestry SocietyBelow Cost Recreation (in
1,000)/ Policy Studies J. 23258,2861995
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Forestry SocietySpecialty Products/Review
Questions

• What are some of the specialty products extracted
  from forests in the US? In the world?
• Should the US government support below-cost
  recreation? Why?
• Can specialty products be harvested on a
  sustainable basis?