Forest communities in the third millennium: linking research, business, and policy toward a sustainable non-timber forest product sector.

Abstract

Contains a wide variety of papers given at the first international conference on non-timber forest products (NTFP) in cold temperate and boreal forests. Focuses on many facets of NTFPs: economics, society, biology, resource management, business development, and others.

Titles contained within Forest communities in the third millennium: linking research, business, and policy toward a sustainable non-timber forest product sector.

• Non-timber forest products: local livelihoods and integrated forest management
• Introductory remarks from the Treaty #3 Territory
• Introductory remarks from the National Aboriginal Forestry Association
• Who, what, and why: the products, their use, and issues about management of non-timber forest products in the United States
• Non-timber forest products and livelihoods in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
• Northern homelands, northern frontier: linking culture and economic security in contemporary livelihoods in boreal and cold temperate forest communities in northern Canada
• The First Nation Forestry Program in Ontario
• Intellectual and ecological traditional knowledge: can it be sustained through natural products development? Case studies from Thailand, Tibet, Ghana, and Guatemala
• Non-timber forest products and Aboriginal traditional knowledge
• "Keeping it Living": applications and relevance of traditional plant management in British Columbia to sustainable harvesting of non-timber forest products
• Changing resource management paradigms, traditional ecological knowledge, and non-timber forest products
• Selected non-timber forest products with medicinal applications from Jilin Province in China
• Ecological and biological considerations for sustainable management of non-timber forest products in northern forests
• Lycopodium: growth form, morphology, and sustainability of a non-timber forest product
• Recommendations for sustainable development of non-timber forest products
• The Minnesota approach to non-timber forest product marketing: the balsam bough industry and other examples
• The industry of wildcrafting, gathering, and harvesting of NTFPs: an insider's perspective
• Using aspen for artist stretcher frames: adding value through quality service, direct marketing, and careful material selection
• Establishing an Alaskan birch syrup industry: Birch Syrup—It’s the Un-maple!^TM
• North American networking activities on non-wood forest products by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• The future of the non-timber forest product industry

Citation

Davidson-Hunt, Iain; Duchesne, Luc C.; Zasada, John C. 2001. Forest communities in the third millennium: linking research, business, and policy toward a sustainable non-timber forest product sector. Proceedings of the meeting; 1999 October 1-4; Kenora, Ontario, Canada. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-217. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 151 p.