Non-timber forests products (NTFPs) provide multiple livelihood benefits to local
communities and regional and national economies. And yet this knowledge is rarely drawn …

The author demonstrates, through a case study of the Wise Use movement, that the insights
and tools of political ecology have much to offer in the study of First World resource conflicts …

This article addresses aspects of nontimber forest products (NTFPs) management in the
United States. Results from a thematic synthesis of literature germane to harvesters and …

Scholarship on the ecosystem services provided by urban forests has focused on regulating
and supporting services, with a growing body of research examining provisioning and …

People continue to hunt, fish, trap, and gather for subsistence purposes in the contemporary
United States. This fact has implications for forest policy, as suggested by an international …

Understanding of the gathering of nontimber forest products (NTFPs) in woodlands has
focused heavily on politics surrounding public lands and harvester communities. Yet forest …

Despite growing interest in urbanization and its social and ecological impacts on formerly
rural areas, empirical research remains limited. Extant studies largely focus either on issues …

Gathering non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in cities and rural areas has received growing
attention in research and news media. Yet little is known about the frequency of these …

Although numerous and varied users harvest, trade, and consume nontimber forest products
(NTFPs), relatively little is known about the organization of the markets for these products …

Nontimber forest product harvesting in the Pacific Northwest is neither a new activity nor a
disappearing relic of the pre-industrial era. Though the emphasis may have shifted from …