Nontimber Forest Product Curriculum Workbook
Lynch - ©2005 Institute for Culture and Ecology

 

Acknowledgements

I owe a debt of gratitude to everyone who participated as an advisor, reviewer or collaborator on the project.  I would like to acknowledge Rebecca McLain who reviewed all modules and collaborated on the development of Module 6: The Politics of Harvesting; Su Alexander and William Barnes who participated in the development of materials for Module 4: The Economics of Harvesting; Alan Hodges for sharing his expertise and course materials related to forest chemicals for Module 1; B.T. Shaw for help in developing the poetry lesson plan in Module 3; and Eric T. Jones who reviewed all modules and for his assistance in developing the website.  I would also like to thank the harvesters who shared their experiences and photographs for inclusion in this curriculum, including but not limited to: Bill Knight, Anny Hubbard, Susan Sparks of Mountain Medicinals, Paul Cowin of La Belle Botanics, LLC, Hall Newbegin of Juniper Ridge Western Wild Goods.  Special thanks go to Eric Burkhart at Pennsylvania State University for sharing his beautiful medicinal plant photographs.  I would also like to thank Josef Brinckmann at Traditional Medicinals, Jennifer Gilden at IFCAE, Jaime Lewis at the Forest History Society, Sandra Russo at the University of Florida, Laurie Schoonhoven, at the Sustainable Forestry Partnership at Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Barbara Thomas-Slayter at Clark University, Sven Walter at the Forestry Department at FAO, David Pilz at Oregon State University for their assistance.  For a complete list of all reviewers and participants please view the final report to NCSSF.