1. Non-timber forest products in Minnesota Dave Wilsey, PhD Assistant Extension Professor and Educator Extension Center for Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences

2. Non Timber Forest Products

3. What is (or isn’t) a NTFP?

4. What is (or isn’t) a NTFP?

5. What is (or isn’t) a NTFP? What is (or isn’t) a NTFP?

6. Where are NTFPs found?

7. Where are NTFPs found?

8. Where are NTFPs found? …to field From forest… And beyond???

9. Why are we interested in NTFPs? Or: What makes NTFPs interesting?

10. Minnesota Lives…

11. Minnesota Lives…

12. Minnesota Livelihoods…

13. Today’s Roadmap 1. DevelopingAwareness of Resources 2. Utilization of Resources 3. Management of Resources

14. Quick poll…

15. (What’s really out there?) Developing Awareness (And where exactly is it?)

16. D.I.Y! Seasonal Calendars Awareness Activity or Phenology Journal Rainy Lake, May 2007, Unknown berries Photo-journaling

17. Books & field guides How to do… How to find… Awareness

18. Peer and professional networks Friends & Neighbors Find a Forester Awareness http://www.myminnesotawoods.umn.edu/minnesota-stewardship-plan-preparers/

19. Local markets and institutions Goods from the Woods Awareness Farmers’ Markets Informal markets

20. (Some of) Minnesota NTFPs

22. 14 US states produce; MN is not in top 5

24. Estimated 4300 ton annual harvest

25. Thousands of seasonal employeesSource: “Estimation and Monitoring of balsam fir boughs in MN,” M. Hansen et al, Date unknown Photo: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

27. An annual aquatic grass

28. Harvest requires permit, if non-Native

29. Related products include birch bark winnowing baskets, cedar knockers, and balsam push polesPhotos: dwilsey, esagor (upper right)

31. Non-destructive (properly harvested)

33. Countless others…

34. 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

36. Wildlife observation

37. Wildflowers

38. Wildlife

39. Etc.Utilization Photos: esagor, dwilsey (lower left)

43. Hobby enterprise

44. Seasonal income

45. Extra cashEvergreen wreaths, jmiedtke Maple sap lines to pump house, dwilsey

46. Quick poll…

47. Management Image: www.cinram.umn.edu

50. Burning

51. Pruning

52. Fallow/rest periods

53. Etc. Management Image: plantamnesty.org Images: forestsavers.com

54. Enhancement Taking action to ensure that existing natural resource (NTFP) populations are sustained or increase Management Image:www.woolwich.ca

56. Understory planting

58. NTFP Enterprises & Markets

59. NTFP Enterprises Enterprises & Marketing 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)

60. NTFP Markets Time - seasonality - trends Enterprises & Marketing Structure Scale Formality Scope + locations

61. Some additional resources… Online Print 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) 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

62. “If American agroforestersextend 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

63. © 2010, Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved University of Minnesota Extension is an equal opportunity educator and employer This material is available in alternative formats upon request. Direct requests to 218-726-6464 Thank you! Dave Wilsey dwilsey@umn.edu myminnesotawoods.umn.edu