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Forestry & Society Specialty Forest Products and Recreation

Forestry & Society Specialty Forest Products and Recreation. HORT/RGSC 302 J.G. Mexal Spring 2002. Christmas Tree Production. Forestry Humor. Decoratives cork birch bark flats bark mulch pine straw/litter Chemicals resins naval stores insecticides (neem) Waste products

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Forestry & Society Specialty Forest Products and Recreation

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  1. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Forest Productsand Recreation HORT/RGSC 302 J.G. Mexal Spring 2002

  2. Christmas Tree Production

  3. Forestry Humor

  4. Decoratives cork birch bark flats bark mulch pine straw/litter Chemicals resins naval stores insecticides (neem) Waste products walnut shells (tanning) Floral Greens ferns baby’s breath mosses Christmas & Evergreen Boughs pine cones holly branches Understory Plants mushrooms medicinals Forestry & SocietySpecialty Forest Products

  5. Trees are Wedding Favors/Aug’03 The GreenWorld Project, a division of Itasca Greenhouse in Cohasset, will supply tree seedlings as wedding favors

  6. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Forest Products/ Quercus suber Cork oak http://www.granorte.pt/cork_oak.htm Schery 1952

  7. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Forest Products http://www.dicknsons.com/corkhist.htm http://www.beyond.fr/flora/oakcork.html

  8. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Forest Products http://www.corkmasters.com/facts/bark-to-bottle.stm http://www.jelinek.com/cork.htm

  9. Forestry & SocietySpecialty ForestProducts • 17 billion bottles of wine produced each year • 9% = synthetic • 12% of corks contaminated with fungus that produces • 2,4,6-trichloroanisole, or TCA

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Edible mushrooms in the NW/ Pilz & Molina ForEcolMgt 155:3:2002

  13. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Products/Matsutake mushrooms J.For. 97:4-11:1999 FS Income ($) Permits (no) 4 Yield (lb/ac) 8 3 FS Income ($) 1 Permits (no) 10,000 5,000

  14. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Products/edible mushrooms Science Findings 28/oct’00 • In 1992: • morels 1.3 million lbs • chanterelles 1.1 million lbs • matsutake 0.8 million lbs from ID,OR,WA

  15. Mushroom Harvesting in Mexico/Ciencia Forestal

  16. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Products/edible mushrooms J.For. 97:4-11:1999 Tricholoma magnivelare - Matsutake Morchella elata - morels Chantharellus cibarius - chanterelles

  17. Thinning vs mushroom production-OR/Pilz et al. JFor104(1):9:’06 Chanterelles (lb/ac) Chanterelles (lb/ac) Thinned in ‘96

  18. Product Witch hazel Purple cone flower Black walnut hulls Genseng Goldenseal May apple Slippery elm Demand (lbs) >110,000 65,000 >200,000 230,000 275,000 220,000 200,000 Forestry & SocietySpecialty Forest Products/Missouri

  19. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Forest Products/Pacific NW

  20. 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 (@1% sugar) will make 1 gal syrup • 28 gal(@3.2% sugar) will make 1 gal

  21. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Products/Peru

  22. “Extract the value of the tree before cutting it down”/Ciencia Forestal Rubber Extraction Resin Collection

  23. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Products/Naval Stores- Schultz 1997 Oleoresin (%) Height above Wound Paraquat

  24. Western Red Cedar/ Thuja plicata Greg Gilbert

  25. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Forest Products-Chile, Canada Peat Moss - Chile

  26. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Forest Products-Silkworm moth w/ cocoon/ feeds on mulberry

  27. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Forest Products- So. Pine needles

  28. Forestry & SocietySpecialty Forest Products-biomass

  29. Recreation or Ecotourism/Ciencia Forestal Neotropical Parrots Monarch Butterfly

  30. Forestry & SocietyRecreation Visitor Days (RVDs) by Agency/ USDA FS Ecosystem Management 1993 Ann. Rep 22 47 288 192 566KK RVDs 116

  31. Forestry & SocietyBelow Cost Recreation (in $1,000)/Policy Studies J. 23:258,286:1995

  32. 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?

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