Nontimber Forest Product Commerce

Nontimber forest products include many plants, lichens, and fungi from forests, including understory species used in the floral market, boughs, fungi, stems, poles and posts, wild foods, medicinals, plant extracts, and transplants. Species with long traditions of use provide people with an identity that contrasts with other trends toward standardization, mass production, and uniformity. Such products evoke a connection to the land, in particular to rural and wilderness environments in the United States, at a time when the population of the United States is overwhelmingly urban. As the number of people desiring naturalness both in ecological and cultural senses grows,