Ethnic diversity, resource values, and ecosystem management: Matsutake mushroom harvesting in the klamath bioregion

Richards, Rebecca T.; Creasy, Max

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“…The long experience of the pickers we talked with contrasts sharply with Richards and Creasy's findings in their study of matsutake pickers in the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon and California during 1993 and 1994, which showed the mean number of years pickers had been involved in harvesting was 1.66 (Richards and Creasy 1996). Because most of the pickers we talked with in Montana also participated in the matsutake harvest, it may be that, over time, fewer newcomers are entering the wild mushroom business.…”

Section: Time Investment Patternscontrasting

confidence: 38%

“…In addition, previous studies of NTFP harvesters in the Pacific Northwest suggested that differences might exist between pickers and buyers of different ethnic backgrounds (Hansis 1998, Love et al 1998, Lynch and McLain 2003, Richards and Creasy 1996. Matrices of these characteristics for the harvesters and buyers (tables 1, 2, and 3) were used to construct the textual description of livelihood strategies.…”

Section: Study Description and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Commercial morel harvesters and buyers in western Montana: an exploratory study of the 2001 harvesting season.

McLain¹,

McFARLANE²,

Alexander³

2005

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The Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is dedicated to the principle of multiple use management of the Nation's forest resources for sustained yields of wood, water, forage, wildlife, and recreation. Through forestry research, cooperation with the States and private forest owners, and management of the national forests and national grasslands, it strives-as directed by Congress-to provide increasingly greater service to a growing Nation.The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, or marital or family status. This exploratory study examined aspects of the social organization of the commercial wild morel industry in western Montana during 2001. We talked with 18 key informants (7 buyers and 11 pickers) and observed social interactions at one buying station near the Kootenai National Forest and three buying stations near the Bitterroot National Forest. The key informant and observational data permitted us to construct a picture of social interactions at field buying stations, buyer strategies for attracting pickers, changes in prices over the course of a season, and the ways in which various participants in the wild morel harvest construct their livelihoods. In the discussion, we contrast our findings with the results of a recently published study on nontimber forest product harvesters in the Eastern United States. We end the report with a discussion of management implications for managers and scientists.

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Section: Time Investment Patternscontrasting

confidence: 38%

Section: Study Description and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Commercial morel harvesters and buyers in western Montana: an exploratory study of the 2001 harvesting season.

McLain¹,

McFARLANE²,

Alexander³

2005

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“…One study found that some nontribal commercial harvesters, including immigrants from Southeast Asia and Latin America, had incentives to overharvest such resources because they were unlikely to recoup the benefit of leaving it, whereas tribal harvesters followed cultural practices that were more likely to favor sustainability (Richards and Creasy 1996).…”

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Escaping social-ecological traps through tribal stewardship on national forest lands in the Pacific Northwest, United States of America

Long¹,

Lake²

2018

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ABSTRACT. Tribal communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America (USA) have long-standing relationships to ancestral lands now managed by federal land management agencies. In recent decades, federal and state governments have increasingly recognized tribal rights to resources on public lands and to participate in their management. In support of a new planning initiative to promote sustainable land management, we reviewed scientific publications to examine relationships between tribal social-ecological systems and public lands in the region. We identified key ecocultural resources, impacts to those resources, and associated forest ecosystems, and strategies that have been piloted to redress those impacts. We found that many factors stemming from colonization by Euro-Americans have engendered social-ecological traps that have inhibited tribes from continuing traditional land stewardship activities that supported their well-being and maintained ecological integrity. These long-standing factors include legal and political constraints on tribal access and management; declining quality and abundance of forest resources due to inhibition of both natural disturbance and indigenous tending regimes; competition with nontribal users; species extirpations and introductions of invasive species; and erosion of tribal traditional ecological knowledge and relationships that are important for revitalizing resource use. As a consequence, both supply and demand for these forest resources have been reduced, as have the resilience and diversity of these ecosystems. Simply permitting resource harvest by tribal members does not sufficiently address the underlying constraints in ways that will promote tribal well-being. Escaping these traps will require addressing a gamut of ecological and social constraints through cooperative restoration efforts between land management agencies and tribes, several of which we highlight as examples. Because tribally focused restoration strategies generally align with broader strategies suggested to restore national forests in the region, they can foster both tribal well-being and ecological sustainability.

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“…The increasing number of Southeast Asians and Latinos harvesting mushrooms also has drawn the interest of sociologists and anthropologists who are documenting conflicts arising from differing values, attitudes, and uses of land among groups of different ethnicity and race (Hansis 1996, Richards andCreasy 1996). Increased unemployment and underemployment in timber-dependent communities has increased the potential for conflict over nontimber forest products, just as Latino and Southeast Asian entry into the…”

Section: Social Equitymentioning

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Opportunities for conservation-based development of nontimber forest products in the Pacific Northwest.

Hagen¹,

Fight²

1999

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Declines in timber harvests on public lands and new market opportunities have rekindled an interest in nontimber forest products. Such products as edible mushrooms, medicinal plants, and floral and holiday greens provide alternative sources of revenue and employment for rural communities. This paper describes and analyzes the contribution of the nontimber forest product industries in the Pacific Northwest from economic, social, and ecological perspectives. We conclude that promises of replacement for declining timber harvests has been largely unfulfilled: the nontimber forest product industries are seasonal, cyclical, and competitive, with generally low returns to harvesters. On the other hand, harvesting of nontimber forest products provides opportunities to those with the fewest options: recent immigrant groups and residents of economically distressed communities. The current economic contribution of nontimber forest products, however, may be considerably less than their future potential under management regimes that emphasize both timber and nontimber products. Forest management systems that emphasize a variety of forest products and services are generally higher in diversity, habitat value, recreation value, and aesthetic appeal.

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Ethnic diversity, resource values, and ecosystem management: Matsutake mushroom harvesting in the klamath bioregion

Cited by 31 publications

References 15 publications

Commercial morel harvesters and buyers in western Montana: an exploratory study of the 2001 harvesting season.

Commercial morel harvesters and buyers in western Montana: an exploratory study of the 2001 harvesting season.

Escaping social-ecological traps through tribal stewardship on national forest lands in the Pacific Northwest, United States of America

Opportunities for conservation-based development of nontimber forest products in the Pacific Northwest.

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