Are we yanking 200,000 ginseng plants from Pennsylvania forests every year?
Are we yanking 200,000 ginseng plants from Pennsylvania forests every year? Updated Dec 23, 2020; Posted Dec 23, 2020 The root of the American ginseng is the part of the plant sought by sellers and buyers. (John Carl Jacobs photo) Facebook Share That would be equivalent to about 200,000 plants being harvested from Pennsylvania’s woodlands annually. But, according to DCNR, about 30 percent of the harvest is plants that the sellers have planted as seeds or transplanted into the wild. No ginseng harvest is permitted on public lands in Pennsylvania. Penn State botanists who have been tracking...
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