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Non-timber forest products in Minnesota
Dave Wilsey, PhDAssistant Extension Professor and EducatorExtension Center for Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences
Non Timber Forest Products
What is (or isn’t) a NTFP? Click icon to add picture
What is (or isn’t) a NTFP? Click icon to add picture
What is (or isn’t) a NTFP? Click icon to add picture
What is (or isn’t) a NTFP?
Where are NTFPs found?Click icon to add picture
Where are NTFPs found?Click icon to add picture
Where are NTFPs found?Click icon to add picture
From forest…
…to field
And beyond???
Why are we interested in NTFPs?
Or: What makes NTFPs interesting?
Minnesota Lives…
Minnesota Lives…
Minnesota Livelihoods…
Today’s Roadmap1. Developing Awareness of Resources
2. Utilization of Resources
3. Management of Resources
Quick poll…
Developing Awareness(What’s really out there?)
(And where exactly is it?)
D.I.Y! Aw
are
ness
Seasonal Calendars
Activity or Phenology Journal
Rainy Lake, May 2007, Unknown berries
Photo-journaling
Books & field guidesHow to do… How to find…
Aw
are
ness
Peer and professional networks
Friends & Neighbors Find a Forester
Aw
are
ness
http://www.myminnesotawoods.umn.edu/minnesota-stewardship-plan-preparers/
Local markets and institutions
Farmers’ Markets
Goods from the Woods Aw
are
ness
Informal markets
(Some of) Minnesota NTFPs
Maple syrup
Acer spp.Acer species
• 2008 US production: 1.9 mil gallons valued at$77.5 million
• 14 US states produce; MN is not in top 5
• 2008 Canadian production valued at $209 million
Balsam boughs and wreathsAbies balsamea
•$20 million industry in MN
•Estimated 4300 ton annual harvest
•Thousands of seasonal employees
Source: “Estimation and Monitoring of balsam fir boughs in MN,”M. Hansen et al,Date unknown
Photo: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Manoomin(Wild rice)Zizania palustris
•Minnesota native food crop
• An annual aquatic grass
•Harvest requires permit, if non-Native
•Related products include birch bark winnowing baskets, cedar knockers, and balsam push poles
Photos: dwilsey, esagor (upper right)
Birch barkBetula papyrifera
• Traditional forest product with rich, multicultural tradition
•Non-destructive (properly harvested)
• Linked to harvest and processing of wild rice (Ojibwe)
Deer
Odocoileus virginianus In 2009: 586,000 licenses
sold; 194,000 animals taken
Recreational
Important food source
Countless others…
Utilization
“[NTFPs] are about getting outdoors, about being with your family.”
“Balsam and trapping pay the bills; hunting gets the meat.”
– Comments from Minnesota NTFP harvesters
Enjoying what is there• Trails and hiking
• Wildlife observation
• Wildflowers
• Wildlife
• Etc.
Utiliza
tion
Photos: esagor, dwilsey (lower left)
Consumption• Materials
• Foods
Utiliza
tion
Gifting & Exchange Utiliza
tion
Commercial uses• Commercial ventures• Hobby enterprise• Seasonal income• Extra cash
Utiliza
tion
Tapping rubber trees in Mexico, dwilsey
Evergreen wreaths, jmiedtke
Maple sap lines to pump house, dwilsey
Quick poll…
Management
Image: www.cinram.umn.edu
Sustainable harvesting practices• Harvest technique
- Tools, transport, etc.
• Harvest intensify
- Timing of harvest
- Frequency
Man
ag
em
en
t
Images: carefulharvest, S.Thayer (calendar)
Examples:
• Thinning
• Burning
• Pruning
• Fallow/rest periods
• Etc.
Man
ag
em
en
t
Images: forestsavers.com
Image: plantamnesty.org
Promotion via “best practices”
Enhancement
Taking action to ensure that existing natural resource (NTFP) populations are sustained or increase
Man
ag
em
en
t
Image:www.woolwich.ca
Establishment & Conversion
• Tree planting
• Understory planting
• Agroforestry applications
- Silvi-pasture
- Windbreaks and hedgerows
- Riparian buffers
• Etc.
Silvi-pasture
Man
ag
em
en
t
WindbreaksImages: www.cinram.umn.edu
NTFP Enterprises & Markets
NTFP Enterprises En
terp
rises &
Marke
ting
Most NTFP enterprises are: Small – having few
employees Low visibility Easily displaced
BUT, May be easier to start Relatively lower risk
Images: IFCAE (L), dwilsey(R)
NTFP MarketsEn
terp
rises &
Marke
ting
Scope+ locations
Structure
Formality
Scale
Time- seasonality
- trends
Some additional resources…Online
MyMinnesotaWoods.com
Center for Integrated Natural Resource and Agricultural Management, (CINRAM.umn.edu)
TrueNorthWoods.com
Institute for Culture and Ecology, (IFCAE.org)
The Overstory, (Agroforestry.net)
Non-Wood News, (http://www.fao.org/forestry/nwfp/en)
Print Non Timber Forest Products
in the United States – E. Jones et al. 2002
Tapping the Green Market: Certification and Management of Non-Timber Forest Products – P. Shanley et al. 2002
Goods from the Woods: Developing your Non-Timber Forest Product Business – T. Brigham 1998
“If American agroforesters extend their attention to micro-growers, such as backyard and community gardeners, other urban agriculturists, hobby farmers, and small acreage owners, they could both derive valuable know-how from these new collaborations and promote agroforestry concepts to the groups previously not associated with agroforestry.”
-Sharashkin et al 2005
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Thank you!
Dave [email protected]
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