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Non Timber Forest Products
The boreal, temperate, and subtropical forests of the United States have a large diversity and density of nontimber forest products. Nontimber forest products broadly includes all nontimber vegetation in forests and agroforestry environments that have commercial value.
Non-timber forest products can be used to supplement or replace timber cutting as a source of income in forest ecosystems. Active management for nontimber forest products can maintain ecosystem complexity and help restore biodiversity.
Non Timber Forest Products facts:
- More than 25 million pounds of wild harvested black walnuts are processed each year, and collectors are paid more than $2.5 million.
- Based on 2001 prices, it is estimated that the average wholesale value of forest-harvested ginseng exceeded $18.5 million.
- In 1997, maple syrup production totaled almost 1.3 million gallons. The value of these totalling more than $30 million.
- In 1996, the value of the handicraft market was projected to be approximately $600 million.
For more information see Non-Timber Forest Products: The other forest products.
The USDA Forest Service defines these products as "special forest products," although nontimber forest products (NTFB) is a more widespread term. NTFPs are plants, parts of plants, fungi, and other biological materials harvested from natural, manipulated, or disturbed forests.
NTFPs can be classified into four major product categories: culinary, floral and decorative, wood-based, and medicinal and dietary supplements.
- Non Timber Forest Products -
- are a collection of biological resources derived from both natural and managed forests and other wooded areas.
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